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Petro asked Maduro for guarantees for the 2024 Venezuelan elections

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and that of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, during a meeting in Caracas on November 1, 2022 – Pedro Rances Mattey/dpa

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, asked during the private meeting he held in Caracas last Tuesday with the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, guarantees for the elections scheduled in Venezuela for 2024.

Colombian sources quoted by the Caracol Radio station have explained that Petro has proposed an agreement of mutual guarantees that will be taken to the dialogue table based in Mexico to advance these talks and guarantee the rights of those who participate in the next electoral process.

In the meeting between Maduro and Petro, issues such as Human Rights or bilateral security have also been addressed. Petro has also summoned Maduro to have Venezuela join the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, a request to which the Venezuelan president said he was receptive.

In addition, it has been confirmed that Petro and the leaders of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, will meet in Paris next week; Chile, Gabriel Boric, and Argentina, Alberto Fernandez under the auspices of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, as facilitators of the dialogue between the Maduro government and the opposition.

Representatives of the Venezuelan government and the opposition could also participate in this meeting to address the situation and collect proposals to restart contacts in Mexico and seek a negotiated solution to the Venezuelan political crisis.

The Colombian ambassador to Venezuela, Armando Benedetti, has confirmed that Maduro has promised to evaluate the possible return of Venezuela to the Inter-American Human Rights System.

“There is a point that is very important and that is that Petro goes to Caracas and tells Maduro to return to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and to our surprise he replies that he is going to review and study it,” Benedetti said in an interview. with the Colombian newspaper ‘El Tiempo’ published this Sunday.

Petro’s purpose in insisting in public and private with his proposal to Maduro is to seek that the region be united and be a “monolithic body” to confront and negotiate with international banks and “end” * with the drug policy imposed by USA.

During the interview, Benedetti was also asked about border security after Petro’s complaint that contraband continues to pass through trails. This issue was the second most important point of the meeting between the two leaders in Caracas.

“Petro is very concerned that the border was opened and that the mafias continue to control many of the crossings (…). They have thought about at least changing the officials who are there. I don’t want to accuse anyone, but On both sides there are officials who have collaborated for smuggling. It is necessary to make some personnel changes,” the ambassador indicated.

Benedetti has stressed that “the borders must be torn away from the mafias” and for this the collaboration of both countries in the field of security is necessary.

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