Gustavo Petro made a long publication in
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, asked this Saturday, October 11, “an explanation” from the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, María Corina Machado, for a letter she sent in 2018 to the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the then President of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, requesting their help to restore democracy in Venezuela.
Petro, who this Friday concisely congratulated Machado for winning the Nobel Prize, made a long publication on
“What I don’t understand and I want you to explain to me is why you request help from a criminal against humanity, with an international arrest warrant, to bring democracy to Venezuela?” Petro said in his publication addressed to the new Nobel Peace Prize winner.
In a “corrected” version published by the president hours later in X, he formulated the question to Machado differently and made other modifications.
“What I don’t understand and I want you to explain to me is: If you now request help from a criminal against humanity, with an international arrest warrant, to bring democracy to Venezuela?” Petro wrote in the new version.
The Colombian president also questioned: “What does it mean that the people of Norway who give out that award stimulate that type of global alliance that could only be one of barbarism and war and not peace?”
«In these years of genocide against which I have fought, I have seen that the most far-right political formations in the world, those who are in tune with Hitler, have become the only allies of the genocide and of Netanyahu. “How can a genocide help make peace in Venezuela?” Petro added.
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The letter from María Corina Machado
In Machado’s letter to Netanyahu and Macri, dated December 4, 2018 and published today by the Colombian president, the opposition leader began by saying: “The population of Venezuela needs international protection against the widespread and systematic attack to which the Venezuelan regime subjects them.”
He also drew attention to “the close relationship” of the Maduro administration “with Iran and extremist groups that, as we all know, threaten Israel in an existential way and have acted in Argentine territory,” in reference to the terrorist attacks perpetrated in Buenos Aires in 1992 and 1994.
In his publication in
«With all due respect that you deserve, it is not by leading Netanyahu to action for Venezuela that the Venezuelan people will be helped. “That can only mean genocide on the people and illegal armed and international aggression on Venezuela,” Petro concluded.
That paragraph was eliminated by Petro from the new version and replaced with this one: “Don’t you think that the Venezuelan people should not be under threat of invasion and, instead, should be happy, without blockages, to unleash the great national dialogue with all Venezuelans without exception?”
With information from the EFE agency
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the 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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