National Deputy for Union for the Fatherland and former Minister of Defense Agustín Rossi remarked that he does not agree with the 'radicalization' taken by the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro in recent years, although he clarified that it is impossible to dissociate that situation from the economic blockade initially applied by the Barack Obama administration and continued by Donald Trump. In an exclusive interview with the Argentine News Agency (NA), the lawmaker highlighted that the Bolivarian revolution led by the late Hugo Chávez and followed by Maduro in the 'first years' was 'a very important moment,' and that from the start of the economic blockade, 'the political process began to get complicated.' 'The radicalization of the last years of chavismo is not something I share. In fact, in the last presidential elections in Venezuela, the presidency of our party (Cristina Kirchner) asked to see the minutes. There was a very important moment of everything that this process was, during the life of Hugo Chávez and the first years of Maduro's government,' he said. Rossi also commented on the US military intervention in Venezuela, calling it a 'military invasion with the kidnapping of a president,' violating all international law. He believes the correct position is the one assumed by countries such as Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and Uruguay, which jointly signed a document calling for non-violence and respect for the sovereignty of each country. In response to a question about the government of Javier Milei's foreign policy, Rossi stated that 'the Argentine government has no foreign policy, because foreign policy is the foreign policy of the United States.' He also added that it has no defense policy, as it is defined by Southern Command, and that its economic policy is intervened by the US Secretary of the Treasury. This level of 'followership' is politically due to the dependence of Milei's economy on Trump, he concluded.
