The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, confirmed Monday that the dissident lawyer of Chavismo María Alejandra Díaz is in Colombiaafter August 6, his government granted him diplomatic asylum.
“Colombia is a country that guarantees political asylum“Petro wrote in X when commenting on the news that Díaz, she said in that social network, is in the Andean country, after leaving,”In the company by the family“, from the residence of the Colombian Embassy in Caracas.
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The lawyer, who was president of the DD.H. Commission and constitutional guarantees of the Chavista and extinct National Constituent Assembly (ANC), said in the last weeks that more than two months ago it was notified about what “The Venezuelan government refused to grant safe -conduct“, because,”According to them“, no” there was any persecution. “
Díaz, who denounced last year that the National Electoral Council (CNE) has “Unfulfilled” it established in the law by not publishing the broken results of the controversial victory of Chavista Nicolás Maduroproclaimed in the presidential ones of 2024, asked for respect for his “Condition of asylee due to the danger of leaving the ambassador’s residence without proper protection“
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In that sense, The Colombian government said on August 6 that he granted asylum to the lawyerwho, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement then, “argued to be a victim of persecution for political and ideological reasons by the Venezuelan State”
Besides, In the same message that referred to the case of Díaz, Petro advocated the liberation of dozens of Colombians who are detained in Venezuelaaccused of conspiring against the Maduro government and who, according to their relatives, “They are not criminals“
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“We expect the return of all Colombians detained in Venezuela“The president said. Colombians were arrested in different parts of the neighboring country in the last yeartime during which their relatives have not been able to communicate with them.
EFE
