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Maduro talks with Petro about peace and the future between Venezuela and Colombia

Gustavo Petro and Nicolas Maduro | Font: AFP | Photographer: JOHN BARRETO

the president VenezuelaNicolas Maduro spoke this Wednesday with the President-elect ColombiaGustavo Petro, who won last Sunday’s election, on “peace and a prosperous future for both peoples” whose governments have been at odds in the political arena for years.

“I spoke to the President-elect Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and on behalf of the Venezuelan people congratulated him on his victory. We discussed our readiness to restore a normal situation on the borders, various issues about peace and a prosperous future for both peoples,” he said. Ripe via Twitter.

Previously, Petro On the same social network, he said that he had made contact with the Venezuelan government, without specifying who he was in contact with, with the aim of opening the common border and “restoring the full enjoyment of human rights” in this busy border area. .

The opening of the border is one of the election promises Petrowho, like his opponent in the second round of Sunday’s elections, Rodolfo Hernandez, assured that if elected, he would take this step.

The two countries share a 2,219-kilometer border that has been closed to vehicles since August 2015 by government order. Ripewhich had previously expelled thousands of Colombians from the area.

Subsequently, February 23, 2019 Ripe broke off diplomatic relations with Colombia in the midst of escalating tensions over the recognition of his Colombian counterpart Ivan Duque as the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, Juan Guaidoas interim president.

The Venezuelan crisis has triggered an exodus of millions of Venezuelan citizens who cross the border on foot, either through official crossings or unguarded routes, and almost two million of them have settled in Colombiawhere is the government duke offered them temporary protected status.

(Information from Efe)

Source: RPP

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