After the first meeting between the presidents of Colombia and Venezuela, Gustavo Petro and Nicolás Maduro, which took place on Tuesday in Caracas, the expectations of analysts and social organizations are growing about what the future of both nations will be.
The president of the Association of Colombians in Venezuela, Juan Carlos Tanus, told Últimas Noticias that the bilateral meeting that served to analyze the migratory issue, “may come to favor the processes of migratory regularization.
“For the first time, the issue of migration has been addressed in a very high-level commission” like that of Maduro and Petro.
Tanus welcomed the leadership of the Colombian president who proposed the reincorporation of Venezuela into the Andean Community (CAN).
“The incorporation of Venezuela into the Andean Community would be of enormous importance because it could generate a process of support for the reindustrialization of the Andean Community of Nations, which today is deteriorating,” he said.
He stressed that Venezuela in the CAN “would obtain more profits through goods and services necessary to face the blockade.” He added that one of the possibilities for both peoples is that “there will be a meeting between families from Colombia and Venezuela once the impasse in vehicular mobility is resolved.”
Foreign Minister Carlos Faría highlighted on his twitter that the historical brotherhood of the Colombian and Venezuelan peoples is being strengthened. We are “inspired by the Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace.”
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The president of the Association of Independent Supermarkets of Colombia, Vilman Tarazona, foresees that farmers, small merchants and businessmen can benefit from the total opening of the border. “We believe that there may be better conditions going forward,” the trade unionist told Colombian media.
Likewise, the president of the Colombo-Venezuelan Chamber, María Luisa Chiappe, said that trade with Venezuela is recovering because “the Venezuelan market has a characteristic that differentiates it from the world market. It is a manufacturing market, of added value, with a lot of employment for the Colombian economy; that is why there is a growing enthusiasm on the part of manufacturing manufacturers,” Chappe told the Colombian media outlet RCN.
