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Colombian President Gustavo Petro visits Venezuela

  • The Colombian president meets with his counterpart Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela Nov. 18, 2023

    The Colombian president meets with his counterpart Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela Nov. 18, 2023 | Photo: @teleSURtv

Published 18 November 2023
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The two leaders will discuss about, climate change, migration and the sanctions aginst Venezuela

On a fourth visit to the Bolivarian Nation, today, the Colombian President Gustavo Petro arrived to Venezuela for an official visit and bilateral exchange with his counterpart Nicolas Maduro.

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Petro and his wife were received by Nicolas Maduro and the Venezuela's First Lady, Cecil Flores in the Miraflores Palace. The Colombian President is travelling as well with Alvaro Leyva, his Chancellor, the President of ECOPETROL, and other functionaries.

During the visit, topics such as climate change, migration, and the Sanctions imposed by the Northamerican imperialism will be discussed.

On the other hand, Gustavo Petro participated in the Venezuela Iternational Fair Book(FILVEN), that by first time it is dedicated to the Gabriel Garcia Marquez's land.

The Colombian president presented at FILVEN his book “One life, many lives”, an autobiographic book. He comented that his book is like a hinge, because are described two of History.
“My life and generation is part of that hinge, and it is important so that young people can look back and thus write the pages that are to come,” he said.

He stressed that "Latin America began to change everywhere, except in Colombia, Colombia was anchored to the past, in fact, the Constitution of 1991, still in force, is fiction, it is like a book by Gabriel García Márquez, they are written words and cannot be apply in Colombia.”

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