Venezuela is currently experiencing crucial days to define its democratic future, as the international community is expected to continue to push for the rejection of the supposed reelection of Nicolás Maduro. A key player in determining the future of the neighboring nation and the region will be President Gustavo Petro.
“We are convinced that Colombia has a key role. If it condones the fraud and remains silent in the face of the massacre of the Venezuelan people, Colombia will bear the brunt in the short and medium term. Petro is the person who speaks to Maduro, because he answers the phone for him.he initially stated.
Then he added: “This is a momentous moment for Petro, who has repeatedly said that he respects human rights, believes in popular sovereignty and defends the electoral route. He has the opportunity to make the regime understand that the transition is the quickest way for them to leave power with guarantees. The longer Maduro remains in power, the worse the consequences will be for the security of Colombia and Latin America.”
The Venezuelan took advantage of the conversation with this media outlet to emphasize that the head of state, like presidents Lula da Silva and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will play a mediating role and that she hopes he is doing more than what he has said on social media.
The former congresswoman, who is a refugee in Colombia, finally stated that our country will be greatly affected by a new wave of Venezuelan migrants. “There could be a wave of migration never before seen in this hemisphere, and Colombia will be hit hardest if Maduro holds on to Miraflores with weapons and fear.”he explained.
President Petro spoke out again this Thursday about the political and social crisis facing Venezuela. The president said at the Latin American and Caribbean Ministerial Summit on Artificial Intelligence that there is an internal problem with democratic rules in the neighboring nation.
“The discussion about Venezuela is not only about an internal problem of democratic rules, which it is, but it has to do –and therein lies the danger– with falling into a new geopolitical dynamic where what is being disputed are not markets, but the integral power of the world. “This is a new topic that needs to be studied, as well as its implications for Latin American societies,” said the Colombian head of state from Cartagena.
