The chancellor of Colombia, Luis Gilberto Murillostated this Tuesday that the government of Venezuela requested the release of two people close to the regime detained in Argentina and Ecuador for grant safe passage to the six opponents asylum in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas.
“I went to Brazil personally, at the instruction of President (Gustavo) Petro, because in our conversation with the Government of Venezuela we managed to grant safe passage to these six people (…) “They asked that Argentina release a person very close to the Government of Venezuela and that Jorge Glas also be given safe passage in Ecuador.”revealed Murillo.
These statements were made before the press during the Summit of Afro-descendant Peoples of the Western Caribbeanin the Caribbean archipelago of San Andrés, where the Colombian foreign minister gave the closing speech.
Murillo said that the leftist government Gustavo Petro is in negotiations with the Nicolás Maduro regime to obtain safe passage for the six asylum seekers at the Argentine diplomatic headquarters.
Last Monday the Colombian Foreign Ministry issued a statement in reference to the situation of Venezuelan asylum seekers. “Since March 2024, when this incident arose, both Brazil and Colombia have offered their good offices to guarantee the protection and assume custody of said diplomatic headquarters.as well as to provide international protection to those who are there as political asylum seekers,” they explained.
Venezuela: asylum seekers in the Argentine Embassy denounce a worsening of harassment
Three of the Venezuelan asylum seekers at the Argentine Embassy in CaracasVenezuela, spoke last Saturday for the first time and They reported that harassment increased to the diplomatic headquarters on behalf of the government of Nicolás Maduro. “We are under constant siege,” they stated.
For the first time since they took refuge in the Argentine diplomatic headquarters, Pedro Urruchurtu, Magalli Meda and Omar González They spoke to the press remotely. They are three of the six Venezuelan opponents who have been refugees for months since this year’s presidential election campaign.
The three asylum seekers They report that the headquarters is surrounded by security agents with faces covered with balaclavas and Russian Kalashnikov rifles. On more than one occasion they have been seen just by looking out of one of the Embassy windows.
“This is part of torture that we are receiving for simply fighting for freedom and democracy in Venezuela,” they denounce.
Source: Ambito
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