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MADRID, December 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday invited Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who announced she had left Oslo after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize last week, to visit her country and “talk with me about peace in the Caribbean and not about invasions.”
“The United States and Latin America must redo their coexistence pact on the basis of the sovereignty and self-determination of peoples,” he defended on his social media account.
The Colombian president assured that Simón Bolívar “would appreciate it”, recalling that his death is commemorated on December 17. “I do not believe that Bolívar accepted the invasions of his homeland, but when he died he asked for peace and unity for the great homeland,” he argued.
The leader of the Venezuelan opposition, who has so far made no comments on this subject, left the Norwegian capital, where she spent a week on the occasion of the Nobel Peace Prize award. This was confirmed by the Prime Minister of the Nordic country, Jonas Gahr Store, in statements to the Bloomberg news agency.
On the other hand, Petro defended in the same message that “supporting sovereign measures on the Nation’s assets is not theft”, in response to the statements made the day before by his American counterpart, Donald Trump, threatening to increase pressure on Caracas if it did not “immediately” deliver the oil which, according to him, “was stolen”.
“In the United States, the owner of the subsoil is the owner of the soil, (while in Latin America, the owner of the subsoil is the nation by constitutional order. Here there is a total misunderstanding of the different legislations that must be respected because they were electorally supported by sovereign peoples,” he affirmed.
Petro argued that “in the same way, Mexico could claim (the United States) Texas, California, Florida (and) New Mexico, because they were part of Mexican territory and had been taken by force.”
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