Iván Duque assured that there was "little time for the dictatorship of Venezuela"

The President of ColombiaIván Duque said Friday that "the Venezuelan dictatorship remains only a few hours because a new institutional regime is being created".

That's what the president said at the regional governors summit that was held this Friday in San Agustín, in the southern Huila department, which also he claimed that the "work" that Colombia and other surrounding countries are doing with a "diplomatic seat" against Nicolás Maduro's regime.

"There is a brave people in Venezuela, a courageous National Assembly, the only legitimate democratic body in this country, which has appointed Juan Guaidó as Acting President to make this transition.", a point.

The head of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, has been proclaimed "interim president" of the country on January 23a decision recognized by Colombia and most American countries.

Duke also celebrated the decision of the European Parliament to recognize Guaidó as Interim President and urged the countries of the old continent to "do not delay accompaniment" to this decision of the parliament.

In this line, paraphrasing South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, said that "If you are neutral in times of injustice, you end up rewarding the oppressor".

"Colombia is today experiencing the most serious humanitarian and migratory crisis in the history of the continent, the result of the harmful consequences of an oppressive dictatorship that completely ruined the people of Venezuela", argued the Colombian president.

In this regard, he stressed that Colombia has worked "with a great sense of brotherhood, welcoming and supporting" Venezuelan migrantsbut to "put an end" to this crisis, we must "actively seek to solve the underlying problem, which is this Venezuelan dictatorship".

The head of state repeated that "Colombia does not have a warmongering spirit" with Venezuela and added that we have to bet on a "great diplomatic seat" and for a "Great reaction from the international community."

And that was it "encirclement" as well as pressure from the international community that has allowed, according to Duque, who "to the dictatorship of Venezuela" are left "very few hours of life".

"The success of this transition will also be the success of Colombia"he condemned.