Bogotá (EFE).- The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, advocated for the “democratic reconstruction of Latin America” and bet for the reentry of Venezuela to the Inter-American System of Human Rights, during the inauguration of the International Conference on the Political Process in Venezuela which is celebrated this Tuesday in Bogotá.
“America cannot be a space of sanctions, it has to be a space of freedoms, of democracy,” said the president, who also referred to the request for free elections and “guarantees so that the Venezuelan people decide freely and sovereignly what they want ”.
Petro, promoter of this conference attended by representatives of 18 countries and the European Union (EU), indicated that, in his opinion, the first step is for Venezuela to return to the Inter-American Human Rights System, from which it left in 2013.
Maduro defends that Venezuela “promotes and supports peace talks”
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, reiterated today that his government “promotes and supports peace talks”, on the occasion of the international conference convened by the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and which is being held in Bogotá, with the aim of unblock the negotiations between the ruling party and the Venezuelan opposition in Mexico.
“The Bolivarian, revolutionary, Chavista and constitutional government that I preside over has a vocation for dialogue. We have always sought an agreement, based on peace, recovery and prosperity of the people, ”said the president on his Twitter account.
Maduro assured yesterday that the meeting in Bogotá is “a conference for respect for the sovereignty” of Venezuela and “to seek the lifting of all sanctions without conditions of any kind.”
During his weekly program, he asked that the US unlock 3.2 billion dollars from the Caribbean country and deposit that money in the social investment fund agreed with the opposition, as a condition for reactivating the negotiating table with anti-Chavismo, suspended since November.