The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, assured that he will work, with the support of the people, to achieve “brotherhood, cooperation and union” with Colombiawhen the elected president, Gustavo Petro, takes office, who will relieve Iván Duque on August 7
“I am going to work and I ask for the support of all Venezuelan society so that we can achieve it.to brotherhood, cooperation and the union of Colombia and Venezuela in a new stageMaduro said in a speech broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión.
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He stated that “a new stage of peaceful relations seems to be opening on the horizon“, and hoped “that the entire Colombian society and the entire Venezuelan society get in tune to the search for economic, commercial, cultural, human cooperation, in the pacification of the 2,200 kilometers of shared border”.
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– Nicolas Maduro (@NicolasMaduro) June 27, 2022
It should be remembered that last Wednesday, Maduro spoke with Petro, who won the elections on Sunday, June 19, about “the willingness to restore normality at the borders, various issues about peace and the prosperous future of both peoples“.
Hours earlier, Petro had reported that he had established contact with the Venezuelan government, without specifying with whom he had communicated, with the purpose of opening the common border and “reestablishing the full exercise of human rights” in this busy border area.
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The two countries share a 2,219-kilometer border that has been closed to vehicles since August 2015 by order of Maduro.which had previously expelled thousands of Colombians from that area.
I have communicated with the Venezuelan government to open the borders and restore the full exercise of human rights on the border.
– Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) June 22, 2022
Subsequently, On February 23, 2019, Maduro broke off diplomatic relations with Colombia amid escalating tensions over the recognition of his Colombian counterpart, Iván Duque.the Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president.
