Colombian President Gustavo Petro said that the country guarantees the right to asylum and shelter in an apparent allusion to chavismo, which asked Colombia extradite Venezuela to a group of opponents requested by the Justice of that country.
(See: ‘Petro Dividend Tax Would Eliminate Equity Market’).
“Colombia guarantees the right to asylum and refuge“, wrote the Colombian head of state on Twitter, after the first vice president of the United Socialist Party (PSUV), God given hair, expressed, in a press conference, his desire that Colombia extradite to Venezuela opponents whom the Government of that country labels as “killers” either “burglars“.
Apart from what was written by the president, no other authority has amplified the message of the Colombian head of state, who although he has made progress in reestablishing the diplomatic ties with Venezuela and in the total reopening of the border, sets a position regarding the right of asylum.
In recent years, Colombia received numerous Venezuelan opponents who came to the country to escape political persecution and received asylum.
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Although Cabello did not name anyone directly, he assured that there are several opposition leaders living in Colombia who will be tried in both countries.
“It’s all a matter of political willHair stressed.
The Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office ratified last week the continuity of a criminal investigation against 23 people accused of usurpation of functions, money laundering and criminal association, after being appointed as part of a parallel directive of the state petrochemical monomers, based in Barranquilla.
Petro appointed the former senator a week ago Armando Benedetti as Colombia’s new ambassador to Venezuela, while the Venezuelan president, Nicholas Maduro, gave this task to the former foreign minister and current director of the International Center for Productive Investment (CIIP), Felix Plasencia.
(See: Maduro proposes to Colombia to create a ‘great economic zone’).
Colombia and Venezuela, which share a 2,219-kilometer border, have not had diplomatic relations since they were broken on February 23, 2019 by order of Maduro, amid an escalation of tensions with his Colombian counterpart at the time, Ivan Duke, for his support of the opposition leader Juan Guaidó.
(See: Monomers: Venezuela confirms investigation into company management).
EFE
