The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, urged the leaders of Brazil and the vice president of Ecuador to join to help Venezuela resolve their crisis. He also asked other leaders in the region to promote a dialogue
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, criticized on Tuesday, September 9, the naval deployment of the United States in the Caribbean with the alleged intention of combating drug trafficking and assured that his country will not lend his territory for a possible invasion of Venezuela.
«Colombia will not lend its territory for an invasion. How are we going to allow an invasion?
Petro insisted that the attack on a Venezuelan civil vessel in the Caribbean, which supposedly carried drugs and left eleven dead, by parts of US officials, has to be treated as a murder, and said that if the countries of South America do not protest for such an act they will be able to suffer the consequences in the future.
“Latin America, who owns the Caribbean, cannot endure that and remain silent because otherwise the bombs will fall is in Bogotá, Río de Janeiro, Manaos and other cities in the region,” he said.
He added that no one can defend governments that are put next to the genocides because “after the bombs will fall on us.”
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Petro recommends dialogue
Gustavo Petro admitted that in Venezuela there is an internal political problem and that he has not even recognized the results of last year’s presidential elections, but added that this conflict must be resolved with dialogue and not with bombs.
“It is an internal problem that is resolved by speaking and we cannot admit that they tell us that they will solve it with missiles as is happening in Palestine,” he said.
Addressing the president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and the vice president of Ecuador, María José Pinto, with whom she coincided in Manaos, Petro said that Latin American countries may be distanced and politically diverted, but considered that they have to join to help Venezuela solve their crisis.
«It is time to speak and I invite you to seek that a body of South American countries will boost a political dialogue in Venezuela. Because the Venezuelan people have to join to solve their problems in the face of a threat of invasion, ”he said.
He also said that an internal political problem does not justify threats to the sovereignty of any country in South America and that the region has to join a possible invasion of the region.
The US president, Donald Trump, justified the current military naval deployment of the United States in the Caribbean as a measure to curb drug trafficking.
With EFE information
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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