translated from Spanish: Pence received the Venezuelan diplomatic Envoy Vecchio

WASHINGTON (AP) – Venezuelan opposition brought Tuesday to the White House his arguments about the urgency to remove power to Nicolas Maduro.El Vice President Mike Pence received Carlos Vecchio, enc argado of the Venezuelan Embassy business recently appointed by the self-proclaimed President interim Juan Guaidó.A their way out of the meeting, Vecchio told reporters that his priorities consist of identifying and protecting the assets of the Republic “for”that are not looted by the dictatorship of ripe”and coordinate the delivery of humanitarian aid to his country.” In the next few hours we will be announcing how to get humanitarian aid, when it arrives and is about”, he said. Mature has refused to accept international aid despite the acute shortage of medicine and food that has led to at least three million Venezuelans to emigrate. However, Vecchio said to be confident that “when these medicines and food get there our military will facilitate entry. I have no doubt”. Vecchio said he raised the possibility of Maduro Government to order the arrest of guided and repression to Pence to street demonstrations, which, according to the UN, have left at least 40 dead since last week.” “If they dare to go much further in such repression, I am convinced that our people will respond to produce this change”, said. The White House said in a statement that the meeting “discussed sanctions, and stressed that they deprived Maduro and his henchmen access bad been money, and preserve the richness of the people of Venezuela”.
The meeting was also attended by the American Special Envoy to Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, and presidential adviser for national security in America Latin Mauricio Claver-Clarone.

The Venezuelan delegation included former President of the National Assembly, Julio Borges, hours after his appointment as Ambassador to the Lima.La group meeting took place one day when President Donald Trump Government enacted the company Venezuela PDVSA oil company, intensifying the pressure to mature so that give power to the opposition, backed by the United States in the oil-rich South American nation. Mature broke diplomatic ties with the United States last week when Trump recognized guided as the interim President of Venezuela. However, it later announced the start of negotiations to establish a representative office of official interests between the two countries. Guided is President of the National Assembly, where the opposition is most. Vecchio and his companion culminated the day meeting with nine Congressmen of both parties. The Republican Florida, Mario Diaz-Balart, Cuban-American in whose office the meeting, took place said that it is “a moment in which finally sees freedom (in Venezuela) is moving forward”.
The Democrat-Florida, Darren Soto, of Puerto Rican ancestry, noted that both parties ‘support the sanctions and recognition guided. Keep the struggle, hope and protest”.

Before seeing Pence, Venezuelan opponents visited the Undersecretary of State for Latin America, Kimberly Breier.

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