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Petro and Maduro appoint their ambassadors to strengthen the new relationship between Colombia and Venezuela

The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, next to a television image of the inauguration of the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro – PRESIDENCY OF VENEZUELA

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, have appointed their respective ambassadors from Colombia and Venezuela this Thursday as a symbol to resume relations between the two countries after the new Colombian president took power.

Petro has appointed Senator Armando Benedetti as the new ambassador of Venezuela, an hour after Maduro appointed the former Venezuelan ambassador to China, Felix Plasencia, as the new head of the Embassy in Colombia.

“I have decided (…) to appoint Armando Benedetti as Colombia’s ambassador to Venezuela,” said the Colombian president, recalling that the new Colombian representative to Venezuela “will have the responsibility of normalizing diplomatic relations between the two countries,” according to what he said. Petro in a statement.

Maduro, for his part, has detailed that Placencia will be “soon” in Bogota to exercise the position of Venezuelan ambassador in Colombia.

“I want to announce that the former Foreign Minister, Felix Placencia, who was ambassador to the People’s Republic of China and who is today president of the International Investment Center, I have appointed him as the next ambassador to the Republic of Colombia,” Maduro detailed in statements. collected by ‘El Universal’.

With these appointments, Venezuela and Colombia are moving towards the normalization of relations, which had been damaged during the Government of Ivan Duque.

Specifically, bilateral relations between the two nations were broken in February 2019 by order of President Maduro in response to the support of the Duque government for “president in charge” Juan Guaido and the non-recognition of Maduro as the country’s leader.

Since then, Colombia and Venezuela had been involved in a crossroads of accusations about alleged collusion with terrorism. Maduro accused Duque of having terrorist plans against him, while from Bogota it was denounced that Caracas gave shelter to Colombian criminals.

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