The Colombian president affirms that the elections were not free in Venezuela because of international economic sanctions
Brazil confirms the participation of its ambassador in Maduro’s inauguration in Caracas
MADRID, 10 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has once again questioned his country’s opposition this Friday, which demands that he break relations and impose sanctions on Venezuela, shortly before the inauguration of Nicolás Maduro, ensuring that these “forceful actions “That they complain to you will only make things worse.
“These actions leave nothing but wounds in people that last for generations, I have seen economic blockades that condemn entire peoples to hunger seeking their slavery, bringing them to their knees, I have seen that they have left millions of dead,” he wrote in a long message in your X social network account.
Petro has assured that what the opposition claims of him “has led Colombian governments to commit international crimes”, bombing other foreign territories and even supporting coups d’état in neighboring countries and in their own.
“The ‘forceful actions’ of one government against another is what we have seen in Iraq, in Syria, in Libya, in Gaza, in Lebanon, in Yemen, in Ukraine, and now, as a threat, against Panama, Denmark, Canada. “It is the end of international law and justice and the beginning of human barbarism,” the president said.
“Do not demand that I help block a brother people with hunger, which will be our own hunger, do not demand that I allow Colombian soil to be used to kill the brother people, which will be our own death. Never in a democrat and In a progressive they can find the slightest willingness to be the Cain of history, the Cain of America,” he said.
Petro has once again insisted that Latin America’s problems must be resolved by the countries of the region. “Our relationship with the world must be on the basis of brotherhood and dignity and equality,” he stressed.
PETRO CRITICIZES INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS AGAINST VENEZUELA
Likewise, he has pointed out that under foreign economic blockades “there are no free elections”, since these are “the maximum annihilation of the vote”, as well as the “maximum interference against freedom before the physical chains ring.”
“It was a huge mistake that powerful countries in the world pushed for elections under an economic blockade in Latin America,” he said in clear reference to the international sanctions that have been falling on Venezuela in recent years.
“The libertarian, sovereign people of Venezuela have fought, with us at their side, for freedom not for chains. That people must decide freely, completely free from those who covet oil, or the servitude of the people,” he remarked.
Once again, the Colombian president has reiterated that his Government will only intervene in the internal affairs of Venezuela if it is invited to “help” so that “the people of Bolívar can express themselves freely and sovereignly.”
BRAZIL CONFIRMS THE PRESENCE OF ITS AMBASSADOR IN CARACAS
Finally, the Government of Brazil has confirmed the presence of its ambassador in Caracas, Glivania Maria de Oliveira, at the inauguration of President Maduro, after the possibility of her not attending was considered in the last hours in response to the brief arrest of the opposition member María Corina Machado.
“We will comply with the diplomatic rite,” said Celso Amorim, special advisor on international affairs to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. “Glivania Oliveira is in Caracas at the head of the delegation,” he told CNN.
For its part, Colombia will also have the presence of its ambassador in Caracas, Milton Rengifo.