Colombia has banned more than 200 "collaborators" from Nicolás Maduro's regime to enter the country

The government of Colombia has banned Wednesday the entry of more than 200 people identified as collaborators of the "dictatorship" of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, reported the authority of migration

"The decision, sovereign and discretionary, is part of the measures taken by the Lima group, of which Colombia is part and which seeks a peaceful solution to the crisis in Venezuela, "said Migración Colombia in a statement.

The director of the entity, Christian Krüger, did not exclude that the number of people on a list of "uninformed" by Colombia, "given its close relations and support for the regime Nicolás Maduro", will increase in the coming months .

Among the people included in the measure, there is Venezuela Ronald Alexander Ramírez Mendoza, who landed Wednesday in a charter at the airport of Barranquilla before being warned.

Ramírez Mendoza has been named "in the past" by Maduro as president of a Venezuelan company headquartered in the Caribbean city.

The right-wing government Iván Duque has led international diplomatic pressure against what he regards as the "dictatorship" of Maduro in Venezuela, with which Colombia has had virtually no relations since mid-2017.

On a par with the United States and several Latin American countries, Bogotá recognized as Venezuela's interim president the opposition Juan Guaidó, president of the National Assembly, unknown to the ruling party.

The Lima group, which brings together a dozen countries in Latin America, including Colombia, he does not know Maduro, considering that his second term, started on January 10, was the result of fraudulent elections.