The Colombian government is negotiating with Venezuela to grant safe conduct to the six Venezuelans who have been in asylum since March at the Argentine embassy in Caracas, who are in Brazilian custody, said Colombian Foreign Affairs Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo.
During the Summit of Peoples of African Descent in the Western Caribbean, the Colombian foreign minister reported that they managed to reach an agreement for the Venezuelan government to grant safe conduct to these asylum seekers in exchange for certain requirements.
“I personally went to Brazil, as recommended by the president [Gustavo] Petro, and then I went to Ecuador, because in our conversation with the Venezuelan government we managed to obtain safe conduct for these six people”, he indicated.
“They asked that Argentina release a person very close to the Venezuelan government and that Jorge Glas also receive safe conduct in Ecuador,” he added.
This Wednesday (18), however, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador, Gabriela Sommerfeld, dismissed the proposal, arguing that her country “is not in favor of impunity, is against corruption and is not an ally of the Nicolás Maduro regime ”, according to a publication in X.
THE CNN contacted the governments of Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil after Murillo’s statements and is awaiting feedback.
Understand the crisis in Venezuela
The Venezuelan opposition and the majority of the international community do not recognize the official results of the July 28 presidential elections, announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela, which give victory to Nicolás Maduro with more than 50% of the votes.
The CNE results were never corroborated with the release of electoral records that detail the number of votes per polling table.
The opposition, in turn, published the minutes that it says it received from its party inspectors and that would give victory by almost 70% of the votes to former diplomat Edmundo González, an ally of María Corina Machado, the opposition leader who was prevented from speaking. apply.
Chavismo claims that 80% of the documents released by the opposition are falsified. Maduro’s allies, however, do not show any electoral records.
The Venezuelan Public Ministry, in turn, initiated an investigation against González for publishing the minutes, alleging usurpation of electoral power functions.
The opponent was summoned three times to give testimony about the publication of the minutes and ended up taking refuge in Spain at the beginning of September, after having an arrest warrant issued against him.
Several opponents have been arrested since the beginning of the electoral process in Venezuela. Only after the July 28 election, at least 2,400 people were arrested and 24 died, according to human rights organizations.
This content was originally published in Colombia negotiates safe conduct for asylum seekers at the Argentine embassy in Venezuela on the CNN Brasil website.
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