The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, landed this Tuesday in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, where he was received by Vice President Delcy Rodríguez and Foreign Minister Carlos Faría at the Simón Bolívar International Airport.
Petro is scheduled to meet with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, which is a further step in the normalization of relations between the two neighboring countries, which once again have diplomatic representation at ambassadorial level since this year.
Among the key issues to be discussed between the two leaders, who met a few days after a month of the reopening of the border, are trade integration, migration or the care of the Amazon, according to the newspaper ‘El Tiempo’.
Colombia currently hosts almost 2.5 million Venezuelan migrants, according to UN data, but the arrival of Petro to power has meant an unprecedented rapprochement with Venezuela in recent years, marked by the criticism of former president Ivan Duque against Maduro.
The meeting between the two leaders, according to the Colombian Presidency on the eve, is part of Petro’s «leadership» to boost the regional economy and socialize the agenda of South America towards the interests of the bloc and the protection of the Amazon as part of the prelude to the Climate Summit, scheduled for the second week of November in Egypt.
