Ambassadors of Guaidó meet in Bogotá to intensify pressure against the Maduro regime

Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo assured the support of the Government of his country to Juan Guaidó, president of the National Assembly of Venezuela and recognized by 50 countries as interim president of that country.

“We have been acting with the purpose of having more diplomatic action, more political action, more approaches and recognitions to Juan Guaidó, and explanation to the international community of this effort we are making,” said the Colombian official. He added that the efforts will not cease and that these “will lead to the cessation of the usurpation of the transition and the convocation of elections.”

For Holmes Trujillo there are increasingly clear and strong conditions “before the international community”.

“The Government of Colombia is with you, will continue with you, will continue to call more countries of the international community, will continue to call for more international presence, more recognition,” the foreign minister continued.

Some 13 opposition diplomats seek that the dozens of countries that support them, led by the United States and Colombia, increase sanctions against the Venezuelan leader and his collaborators, accused of economic collapse and the deterioration of democracy.

On the meeting in Bogota, Julio Borges, ambassador appointed by Juan Guaidó before the Lima Group, assured that they will address the situation of Venezuelans abroad “and how we can raise the pressure against the dictatorship”, in reference to the Nicolás regime Mature.

“We want to have everything that the strategy means to bring countries like Russia and China closer together so they can be part of the solution,” Julio Borges, an exiled leader in Bogotá, told Reuters.

Russia and China are part of a group of countries that support Maduro.

Venezuela completes five years of recession, with hyperinflation that has deteriorated the income of families and caused the migration of more than 3 million people, according to the United Nations.

Meanwhile, from Venezuela, Juan Guaidó announced the meeting of the ambassadors in Bogotá with the message that “in and out of Venezuela we are organizing to increase the pressure for the final phase of # OperationLibertad”.

Previously, Guaidó, in an interview with Andrés Oppenheimer, said that there is no possibility of dialogue with the beleaguered President Nicolás Maduro. “With Nicolás Maduro there is no possibility of dialogue, and I stress this, with Maduro, because he has already demonstrated in previous situations, like in 2017 in the Dominican Republic, that he used it to mock the citizens,” said Guaidó.