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"We are brothers": Venezuela and Columbia restore diplomatic relations
After a three-year break, the Latin American nations are restoring diplomatic ties and reopening the border that separates them, reigniting economic prospects for both.
The new Colombian ambassador, Armando Benedetti, arrived in the city of Caracas and published on Twitter: "Relations with Venezuela should never have been severed. We are brothers and an imaginary line cannot separate us." The new Venezuelan ambassador to Colombia, Felix Plasencia, also landed on Sunday in Colombia to expedite the normalization of diplomatic ties.
He was welcomed by deputy foreign minister Rander Pena Ramirez, who tweeted: "our historical ties summon us to work together for the happiness of our peoples."
Gustavo Petro, Colombia's new and first leftist president, and Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro announced on August 11 their plans to restore diplomatic relations that were broken in 2019. That was the pinnacle of years of tension between leftist Venezuela and Colombia under successive conservative presidents, starting with Alvaro Uribe. Following the series of events, embassies and consulates in both countries were closed, and flights between the neighbors were grounded.
The 2,000-kilometer land border between the two Latin American countries was closed between 2019 and October 2021, and was opened to pedestrians only. Petro is Colombia's first leftist president and wishes to establish a strong relationship with Caraca unlike his predecessor, Ivan Duque, who did not acknowledge Maduro as president - but rather opposition leader Juan Guaido, a US-backed right-wing candidate during the Venezuelan elections who claimed to have become interim President of Venezuela.
Colombia was one of around 60 countries to do so, having renounced Venezuela's 2018 presidential election, which was boycotted by the opposition. In addition to exchanging ambassadors, the normalization process will entail the full reopening of the border.
The frontier has been the scene of conflict between armed groups. The cities of Caracas and Bogota have also announced plans to restore military relations as well. Benedetti stated that more than eight million Colombians earn a living from trade with Venezuela, which is why one of the intentions is to re-establish trade relations between the two countries.
A similar expectation sits on the Venezuelan side, where industrialists want to normalize trade that reached $7.2 billion in 2008 but collapsed when the border closed. Maduro said during a national economic council session on Tuesday. "We will propose to (Colombian) President Gustavo Petro establishing a vast economic zone for trade and industry between Norte de Santander and the state of Tachira".
The Venezuelan leader highlighted that this project could be expanded to include the states of Apure, Amazonas, and Zulia, all of which lie on the Colombian-Venezuelan borders.
We are brothers": Venezuela and Columbia restore diplomatic relations
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- Source: Agencies
- 29 Aug 10:24
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After a three-year break, the Latin American nations are restoring diplomatic ties and reopening the border that separates them, reigniting economic prospects for both.
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro (Getty)
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The new Colombian ambassador, Armando Benedetti, arrived in the city of Caracas and published on Twitter: "Relations with Venezuela should never have been severed. We are brothers and an imaginary line cannot separate us." The new Venezuelan ambassador to Colombia, Felix Plasencia, also landed on Sunday in Colombia to expedite the normalization of diplomatic ties.
He was welcomed by deputy foreign minister Rander Pena Ramirez, who tweeted: "our historical ties summon us to work together for the happiness of our peoples."
Gustavo Petro, Colombia's new and first leftist president, and Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro announced on August 11 their plans to restore diplomatic relations that were broken in 2019. That was the pinnacle of years of tension between leftist Venezuela and Colombia under successive conservative presidents, starting with Alvaro Uribe. Following the series of events, embassies and consulates in both countries were closed, and flights between the neighbors were grounded.
The 2,000-kilometer land border between the two Latin American countries was closed between 2019 and October 2021, and was opened to pedestrians only. Petro is Colombia's first leftist president and wishes to establish a strong relationship with Caraca unlike his predecessor, Ivan Duque, who did not acknowledge Maduro as president - but rather opposition leader Juan Guaido, a US-backed right-wing candidate during the Venezuelan elections who claimed to have become interim President of Venezuela.
Colombia was one of around 60 countries to do so, having renounced Venezuela's 2018 presidential election, which was boycotted by the opposition. In addition to exchanging ambassadors, the normalization process will entail the full reopening of the border.
The frontier has been the scene of conflict between armed groups. The cities of Caracas and Bogota have also announced plans to restore military relations as well. Benedetti stated that more than eight million Colombians earn a living from trade with Venezuela, which is why one of the intentions is to re-establish trade relations between the two countries.
A similar expectation sits on the Venezuelan side, where industrialists want to normalize trade that reached $7.2 billion in 2008 but collapsed when the border closed. Maduro said during a national economic council session on Tuesday. "We will propose to (Colombian) President Gustavo Petro establishing a vast economic zone for trade and industry between Norte de Santander and the state of Tachira".
The Venezuelan leader highlighted that this project could be expanded to include the states of Apure, Amazonas, and Zulia, all of which lie on the Colombian-Venezuelan borders.
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Europe and US meet with Venezuela's real President Maduro - desperate for lower oil prices, their coup attempt falters - Multipolarista
France's Emmanuel Macron, US envoy John Kerry, Portugal's PM met with Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro at UN COP27 conference in Egypt, hoping to lower oil prices
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After years backing a failed coup attempt, France’s leader Emmanuel Macron, US climate envoy John Kerry, and Portugal’s Prime Minister Antonio Costa held informal discussions with Venezuela’s constitutionally elected President Nicolás Maduro.
These meetings took place on November 7 at the United Nations climate change conference, COP27, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
The Joe Biden administration still technically recognizes unelected coup leader Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s supposed “interim president,” but Washington and Brussels are desperate to lower oil prices amid an energy crisis that has wreaked havoc on their economies.
Before the West imposed harsh sanctions on Russia over the proxy war in Ukraine, Moscow had been the largest supplier of both oil and gas to Europe.
December 5 marks the deadline by which the European Union pledged to cut off all imports of Russian crude. This means EU member states are desperately looking for alternative suppliers, as winter soon approaches.
President Biden visited Saudi Arabia in July and tried to pressure both the country and the OPEC+ alliance to boost production in order to drop the price of oil on the global market. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman refused, instead announcing that the oil producers would be cutting their production.
France’s President Emmanuel Macron may be a banker who is deeply motivated by neoliberal ideology, but he is also a bit of a pragmatist.
Realizing that he had few other choices, Macron approached Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro at the COP27 conference. A video that went viral on social media showed the French leader politely asking Maduro for a meeting and proposing dialogue.
On the same day, Maduro met with the Biden administration’s special climate envoy, John Kerry.
Kerry had harshly criticized Maduro back when he served as secretary of state under President Barack Obama. The Venezuelan leader had condemned Kerry as well, calling him “ridiculous” in a 2014 rally.
But today, reducing the price of oil is a more important priority for Washington. And Caracas is willing to negotiate in hopes of lifting some of the illegal unilateral sanctions that the United States imposed on it, which have crippled Venezuela’s oil sector and devastated the country’s export-dependent economy.
At the COP27 conference, Portugal’s Prime Minister Antonio Costa likewise had a friendly chat with Maduro.
The Portuguese leader was the most open of all with his intentions, saying clearly that the economic situation in Europe has been difficult with high inflation and soaring costs of oil and gas.
These meetings represent quite a political reversal for the Western powers, which have spent years trying to overthrow Venezuela’s leftist Chavista government.
During a coup attempt in which right-wing extremists erected violent “guarimba” barricades to destabilize the country in 2014, the Obama administration began imposing sanctions on top Venezuelan officials.
In 2015, the White House released an executive order declaring Venezuela an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
This opened the flood gates for illegal unilateral US sanctions, which increased by the year, seriously damaging Venezuela’s oil industry, restricting its exports, and thus starving the country of much needed foreign exchange reserves.
In January 2019, the Donald Trump administration initiated the biggest coup attempt yet, appointing little-known right-wing opposition politician Juan Guaidó as supposed “interim president,” despite the fact that he has never won a single vote in a presidential election.
Trump drastically expanded the sanctions into a full-on US embargo of Venezuela, similar to Washington’s six-decade blockade of Cuba. The South American nation’s oil production subsequently fell to the lowest levels since 2003 – when the US government sponsored another, briefly successful coup in Venezuela and a subsequent oil lockout and bosses’ strike by the right-wing opposition.
Trump and top US officials also repeatedly discussed launching military attacks on Venezuela. Neoconservative National Security Advisor John Bolton later boasted of the hard work it took to organize the coup.
At the beginning, France eagerly joined in the US-led regime-change operation. Macron declared that Paris recognized Guaidó as Venezuela’s “interim president.”
As recently as 2020, Macron was still publicly maintaining this charade, tweeting smiling photos with Guaidó.
Soon after the Biden administration came to power in January 2021, it made it clear that it was continuing Trump’s policy.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken had a friendly call with Guaidó on March 2, reaffirming Washington’s “unwavering support.”
As recently as June 2022, the State Department was still describing Guaidó as so-called “interim president.”
The US assistant secretary for western hemisphere affairs, Brian A. Nichols, even removed the word “interim” and referred to Guaidó simply as “president” on June 11.
The West’s de facto reluctant admission in 2022 that Maduro is Venezuela’s constitutional president stands in stark contrast to a press conference given in April 2020, when the US Justice Department put a mafia-style $15 million bounty on the head of Maduro and other top Venezuelan government officials.
Donald Trump’s far-right attorney general, veteran CIA operative William Barr, levelled absurd accusations of “drug trafficking” and “narco-terrorism,” without a scintilla of evidence.
The Trump administration’s coup attempt in Venezuela culminated in a botched invasion in May 2020, featuring dozens of mercenaries and former US Army special operations forces.
Known as Operation Gideon, this failed terrorist operation was sponsored by the CIA and Colombian intelligence agencies, according to coup-plotters involved in the attack.
Check out our related report "How Trump and John Bolton attempted a coup in Venezuela": https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/14...
CIA backed failed 2020 invasion of Venezuela, top coup-plotter says: https://multipolarista.com/2022/02/02...
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