Venezuelan president invited Colombian businessmen to return to the country. Relations between the two states have been broken since 2019.
Le Monde with AFP
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro estimated, Wednesday, October 20, that his country and Colombia, who have no diplomatic relations since 2019, had to “normalize” their reports.
“We need to solve our problems, regularize, normalize commercial, productive, economic relations. We need to normalize consular, diplomatic relationships,” he said to national television by greeting an initiative of the Colombian Senate who proposes To create a binational parliamentary committee on relations between the two neighbors sharing 2,200 km from land borders.
Nicolas Maduro, however, accused the Colombian President Ivan Duque not to provide consular assistance to Venezuelans living in Colombia, where are refugees nearly two million from the thirty million people who have fled since 2013. Economic and political crisis in their country.
Borders reopened on paper only
Wishing a “page that turns”, Mr. Maduro invited Colombian businessmen to “resume” their investments in the country bogged down in the worst crisis of his recent history, with hyperinflation and seven consecutive years of Recession.
Caracas had broken diplomatic relations in 2019 with Bogota after recognition by Colombia, as well as about fifty other countries including the United States, Juan Guaido as Acting President.
But the border between the two countries was already almost entirely closed since 2015 due to recurring tensions between the two neighbors.
Recently, Caracas and Bogota have both announced the reopening of their land borders without being followed by effect on the ground.