Colombia has canceled 300 border mobility permits for people close to the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro

The Colombian government announced on Thursday that it would cancel more than 300 border mobility permits held by mayors, governors, deputies, councilors and relatives of government members, who support the Venezuelan president's regime. Nicolás Maduro.

This was stated by the director of Colombia migration, Christian Krüger, who visited different borders between Colombia and Venezuela and checked the flow of travelers entering the country daily with the help of the Border mobility cards (TMF).

"We decided to cancel the mobility cards at the border of a group of more than 300 supporters of the Nicolás Maduro dictatorship"Krüger said in a statement from his office.

These maps were created by the Colombian government for facilitate the transit of Venezuelans fleeing the oil crisis at the borders.

According to the head of the Colombian immigration authority, the "sovereign and discretionary" decision is part of the the measures taken by the Colombian Government to seek a peaceful solution to the Venezuelan crisis and are framed in the decisions taken by the Lima Group, created on August 8, 2017 to face the crisis in this country.

The detailed information that the list is led by familiar people like the former governor of Táchira, Vielma Mora, who in 2015 "He was responsible for expelling, in violation of human rights and all international protocols, more than 22,000 Colombians."

TMF will also be suspended for relatives of the current governor of the state of ZuliaOmar Prieto; the mayor of Caracas, Érika Farias.

Also those close to the vice president of the National Electoral Council of Venezuela (CNE), Sandra Oblitas; the mayor of the municipality of Sucre; José Vicente Rangel; Willy Casanova, Mayor of Maracaibo, and Jean Carlos García, Chairman of the Ureña Council,

The official explained that "The flexibility measures of the national government were created with the aim of helping the Venezuelan people, so it makes no sense to market, among others."

On January 30, the government of Colombian President Iván Duque announced that more than 200 people could not enter Colombia because of their "close relationship"and support to the Maduro government.

This list is led by Maduro himself, head of the official Venezuelan Constituent Assembly, Diosdado Cabello and the vice president Delcy Rodríguez.

Colombia is one of the members of the Lima group, which also includes Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Saint Lucia.