April 24, 2023, 9:10 PM
April 24, 2023, 9:10 PM
The Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó reported on Monday (04.24.2023) that he traveled to Colombia on the occasion of the international conference convened in Bogotá to unlock the dialogue between the opposition and the government of Nicolás Maduro.
Representatives of 20 countries, including the United States, are scheduled to meet in Bogota on Tuesday in an attempt to generate proposals to revive negotiations that began in Mexico City in August 2021 but stalled in November.
Guaidó is not invited to the summit in the Colombian capital, nor is the Maduro government. “I have just arrived in Colombia, in the same way that millions of Venezuelans have done before me, on foot,” said Guaidó, considered by the United States between January 2019 and 2023 as the president in charge of his country after the disputed re-election. Maduro a year earlier.
Ask to return to the negotiating table
“I hope that the summit can guarantee that the Maduro regime returns to the negotiating table in Mexico and a credible timetable is agreed for free and fair elections as a solution to the conflict. Our fight is for the rights of Venezuelans to count”, stressed.
Until now there is no scheduled meeting between Guaidó and the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro. A delegation from the Unitary Platform, which represents the opposition at the negotiating table in Mexico, already held a meeting with the leftist president on Saturday.
“I will request a meeting with the international delegations that will attend. I will hold meetings with the Venezuelan diaspora,” Guaidó said.
“I will not stop denouncing the crimes against humanity committed by the Maduro regime. I demand the freedom of the almost 300 political prisoners who remain in jail, that they stop persecuting my family, my team and those who fight for a better Venezuela,” he said.
