The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, met this Thursday with the former head of the Spanish government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, in the city of Caracas.
In recent visits, Rodríguez Zapatero has expressed his support for Venezuela’s participation in talks between the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN).
In this sense, the former Spanish president affirmed that “getting the guerrilla group to renounce violence is a great objective”, which will benefit citizens of both Colombia and Venezuela, especially on the common border, since it will cause “other violence diminish or disappear.
Rodríguez Zapatero has also expressed his desire that the dialogue between the National Government and the Unitary Platform yield positive results, emphasizing that “democracy is a continuous dialogue”, highlights a press release from the Ministry for Communication and Information.
For his part, the Venezuelan Head of State has ratified on more than 1,000 occasions the willingness of the Bolivarian Government to establish a “frank and open dialogue” with sectors of the political opposition, as the only way to guarantee national peace.
The Venezuelan President is accompanied by the Executive Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez; the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez and the first combatant, Cilia Flores de Maduro.
