Iván Duque assured that since 1999 Venezuela lived in a "dictocracy"

"What we have to do today in front of Venezuela, is to defend democracy, human rights, the separation of powers, the free press and we do not do it because There is no interest in political domination, we do it for the sake of coherence ", He said at the opening of the semi-annual meeting of the Inter-American Press Association (SIP) in Cartagena.

Last weekend, a hundred soldiers commanded by Major General Vasili Tonkoshkurov, Russian army chief of staff, landed at the Maiquetía International Airport, the main airport of the Venezuela, aboard two military planes.

Russia is one of the greatest allies of President Nicolás Maduro, whom he publicly supports with the bet of the Speaker of the Parliament and "interim" President of this country, Juan Guaidó, recognized by more than 50 countries as the only legitimate country .

Referring to the crisis Venezuela is going through, Duque said at the IAPA meeting in Cartagena, "as a form of reflection," that "we can not remain indifferent when radical changes in rules of the game lead us to the erosion of democracy ".

For this reason, he badured that In 2019, it's been 20 years since Chavismo came to power and so is the beginning of what he sees as a "process of annihilating democracy in Venezuela."

Before that, he wanted "go up, without any kind of tingling" that in 1999 "what began to live" Venezuela is "a dictocracy".

This concept badumes Duc "the constitution of a regime that aimed at the weakening of all freedoms and which was crossing the loophole of democracy until it completely defies all the freedoms of freedom." a people ".

"Because no one is lying, what this country is going through today is the product of this flagrant, deliberate and clean deterioration of the most abusive totalitarian regimes, the complete elimination of the separation of powers, the destruction of the judiciary to make it an instrument of servile persecution ", stress.

According to the Colombian president, this situation has led to a "collapse of the free press" as television channels and the media have been "intimidated, nationalized, expropriated or expelled".

That's why he asked that The SIP meeting is for everyone to understand that the defense of democracy is not and can not be linked to geopolitical balances.

This defense, he explained, is linked to the Inter-American Democratic Charter, because it believes that one should not speculate on the duration of the current Venezuelan government.

On the contrary, he must "badume the commitment to do" everything in his hands, always in "the framework of legality, diplomacy and pressure with freedom of expression for this regime falls and that Venezuela can come back dreaming. "

Regarding the response to the current situation in Venezuela, Duque felt that "in the regional environment", "milestones have been achieved in recent decades and were consolidated in 2001" of the Democratic Charter Inter.

This, considered "is the most important multilateral instrument of the inter-American system that must be invoked to" defend with all energy, with all the capabilities that democracy can not be threatened in our region ".