Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has regretted that the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, travels to Caracas to «normalize» the «dictatorship» of Nicolás Maduro and has asked him instead to demand «free and fair elections» in Venezuela.
«President Petro decides to visit today the dictator Maduro and call him ‘president’, an action that dangerously could normalize Human Rights violations that point to Maduro as responsible for the chain of command and the worst migratory crisis in the world,» said Guaidó on Twitter.
Colombia currently hosts almost 2.5 million Venezuelan migrants, according to UN data, but the arrival of Petro to power has meant a rapprochement with Venezuela unprecedented in recent years, marked by the criticism of former President Ivan Duque against Maduro.
The meeting between Petro and Maduro is another step in the normalization of relations between the two neighboring countries, which once again have diplomatic representation at the ambassadorial level since this year.
