The vice president of International Affairs of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Rander Peña, stated that Colombia’s foreign policy seems, in practice, to have been outsourced to Washington, the United States (USA).
In an opinion article published this Monday on his Telegram channel, Peña pointed out that Colombia’s international decisions are influenced by former president Juan Manuel Santos “from the shadows” and executed by Foreign Minister Gilberto Murillo.
“The question is: who is behind Murillo? It is impossible not to notice the tragicomic turn in this story. Gustavo Petro, the president voted for by millions of Colombians hopeful for sovereign and progressive change, has a chancellor whose loyalty does not reside in Bogotá but in Washington, with a long-standing relationship, where he owns properties, a working relationship with the of imperial power and even without nationality. After all, Murillo responds with surprising speed to the “recommendations” of Santos and the United States of America,” Peña pointed out.
In that sense, he stated that the Colombian foreign minister “has a direct employer: the State Department, which has him on its payroll and pays him, and which also lobbied in the past for the appointment of his current position.”
In addition, the head of International Affairs of the PSUV inquired about the “pact” that Murillo would reach to take over the Foreign Ministry.
“The truth behind everything is that he assumes that, being obedient to imperial interests, he will win the nomination for the presidential candidacy in Colombia, that by seeking the blessing of his masters he can be the candidate of ‘sanctism’, that is a sung truth and irrefutable,” he said.
Orders to boycott Venezuela
Rander Peña assured that Murillo, to win the nomination of the so-called santismo, has the order to boycott everything that has to do with Venezuela.
“Let’s do the exercise and review all of President Petro’s statements about Venezuela and all of Murillo’s statements about Venezuela, they contradict each other; Petro is more like what our people want: respect and peace; Murillo is openly an interventionist and provocateur of war scenarios, with fascist purposes,” he argued.
Peña considered “unacceptable for the people who choose a clear path” that someone subordinate to other interests prevents them from achieving their objectives, and urged to prevent this from continuing to happen, and condemned that “these low-level officials with few cognitive abilities boycott the wise people who know very well what they want.”
“To the vulgar and limited Murillo, we say: ‘The devil pays poorly for those who serve well,’” he concluded.
