BOGOTÁ. – The President of Colombia, the leftist Gustavo Petro, said this Wednesday that it is so “Time for a general amnesty and a transitional government” in Venezuela, on the same day as the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for the Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.
Critical of US pressure on Caracas and the elections in Venezuela Nicolas Maduro After his re-election as president, which was viewed as fraudulent by much of the international community, Petro insisted on a peaceful resolution to the political crisis.
“Venezuela’s problem is more democracy and it is time for one general amnesty and from one Interim government including everyone,” the left-wing president wrote in X, at a time when Machado was on a secret trip to Oslo.
Ana Corina Sosa Machado, It was the winner’s daughter who accepted the Nobel Prize in her place in Norway with an emotional speech “Brutal dictatorship” because his mother couldn’t get to the ceremony on time. Hidden since August 2024, the opponent would have managed to leave Venezuela, but she would still be in the middle of the journey.
Venezuela and Colombia are under pressure from the USA, which has stationed its troops a robust military offensive allegedly targeting the drug trade in the Caribbean and the Pacific, with a series of attacks that have already killed 87 people since the first attack in September.
“Maduro must understand that the response to external aggression is not just one military enlistment but a democratic revolution,” said Petro. “It’s with more democracy how a country is defended, not with more ineffective repression,” he added.
The Colombian head of state has warned against this several times possible violations of sovereignty of Latin American countries by the White House. Maduro believes that the real goal of Washington’s military operation is to overthrow him.
In August 2024, a month after the fraud in the presidential election, the Colombian president had already sent a similar message proposing an annulment “All sanctions against Venezuela” and a “general national and international amnesty.”
He also reiterated the need for democratic elections last January, when Maduro formally assumed a new mandate.
Petro mediated for the release of political prisoners Many of them are Colombians imprisoned in Venezuela “Mercenary”. According to the latest count by Foro Penal, there are at least 893 political prisoners in Venezuela.
On the other hand, Petro said this Wednesday that the two bodies were allegedly bombed by the United States and found on a Colombian beach last week “Citizens of the Dominican Republic.”
The president called on prosecutors to open an investigation the discovery of two bodies on the shore of a fishing village in La Guajira department and suspected that their deaths could have been due to a US bombing raid.
In a video shared on X: You see residents digging a grave on the beach, while a body with a mutilated arm lies on the seashore. “Apparently these are boats that were bombed in the Caribbean Sea, apparently citizens of the Dominican Republic,” Petro said.
“I ask the Dominican Republic to find its citizens and their families to help us identify them. No more blood in the Caribbean. “The Caribbean people must gather without fear to end the massacre,” he said.
“This They are murders. “There are no international waters in the Caribbean, they all belong to our Caribbean states,” the Colombian head of state also explained.
Agencies AFP and ANSA
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