Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has assured that moves to relaunch negotiations between the Venezuelan government and the opposition seek to solve the conflict with a free and fair election «as they have been demanding for years», while former Colombian President Iván Duque lists five conditions to avoid «another trap» by Maduro.
Both politicians have made reference to recent moves by France, Colombia and Argentina to favor dialogue between Maduro’s team and the Unitary Platform in Mexico.
Guaidó has commented that this is an «additional tool» by which countries that today are in democracy, beyond their ideological tendency, put the focus on holding free and fair elections as a solution to the conflict in Venezuela, in a video posted on his Twitter profile.
In addition, he considered that the relationship between the three foreign leaders should «contribute» to the achievement of a comprehensive agreement. And he argued that the extension of the sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the EU is due to the fact that its member countries are aware that it is a dictatorship.
On the other hand, Petro’s proposal is that there be an economic unblocking, that an amnesty be implemented to free all prisoners detained for political reasons and that an electoral coexistence pact be drawn up to provide guarantees for all forces, so that citizens have the opportunity to decide.
On the contrary, the former President of Colombia Iván Duque has criticized that if the immediate release of political prisoners, immediate free presidential elections, guarantees of strict international observation, if Maduro does not participate in the electoral appointment and there is no plan for the reconstruction of Venezuela, the gesture would end up being «another trap of the Narco Dictator Maduro with the complicity and naivety of others», as he pointed out on Twitter.
