The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, stated this Tuesday, after the meeting he had with his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, in Caracas, that political peace in the Caribbean nation can also be armed peace for the Andean country, for which there is a “ground” to build quickly.
“Colombia can help a lot in political peace, in the political stability that we have proposed that can be achieved throughout South America, political peace in Venezuela can also be armed peace in Colombia, in that there is ground to build quickly, urgently,” Petro indicated from the presidential palace of Miraflores, in Caracas.
Likewise, he said that this political peace is also related to security around the dismantling of criminal gangs, “the possibility that cryptocurrencies are not used as a money laundering mechanism, the joint fight against mafias of illicit economies.”
“So this scenario of a peace, which we think should happen in Venezuela, of a peace around the armed conflict in Colombia and a peace that has to do with the common citizen, which has to do with the mafias, the gangs giving ground for the safety of a citizen, a mother, a citizen”he added.