Iván Duque says Venezuelan regime is a “source of instability” on the continent

Peruvian Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, invited several political leaders to a forum focused on the conflict of political ideologies in the Latin American panorama, in which several former presidents and political leaders from the continent and Spain participated.

President Iván Duque participated through a pre-recorded video and in his speech questioned the Venezuelan regime, by ensuring that this country becomes a factor of instability for the whole region.

The collapse of democratic order in Venezuela “has become a factor of instability for the whole regionThe president said in a message published during a right-wing Ibero-American forum organized by the International Freedom Foundation (FIL) in Quito, according to the AFP agency.

The event was organized by the FIL chaired by Mario Vargas Llosa and according to his words, the event aimed to “affirm, in these difficult times in the region, the need to consolidate our democracies by defending freedom, the rule of law, respect for private property and peaceful coexistence“.

The Colombian President drew the attention of the international community to the situation in the region and said that: “The deterioration of democracy in just one of the nations of the hemisphere has consequences across the board for all the others.”

“We must strengthen democracy and make it a participatory, open, deliberative and peaceful democracy that does not share with any expression of violence”added President Duque.

Venezuelan opposition leaders such as Leopoldo López and María Corina Machado attended the event. “We are going together on this path for democracy and freedom throughout the American continent”López said. Likewise, members of the Spanish People’s Party Pablo Casado and Isabel Díaz Ayuso participated.

The forum was held in person in Ecuador, on the occasion of the election of Guillermo Lasso, the wing of the opposition to correísmo in his country and which closed the event. He said his goal will be “to defend democracy in the region, the freedom and the opportunity to transform Latin American societies into prosperous societies”., as reported by AFP.

Keiko Fujimori, presidential candidate of Peru, and daughter of pardoned former president Alberto Fujimori, had a main panel in which he spoke with writer Mario Vargas Llosa and then released a pre-recorded video.

In the invitation, the Nobel Prize for Literature had expressed the importance of attending the event in person and sharing the following cocktail with the invited leaders and intellectuals, but according to him, the judge did not grant him the authorization to cross national borders.

“My country, Peru, has become the epicenter of a new battle against communism and its nefarious discourse, a dynamic which, as you know, only tries to confront my compatriots by dividing them between rich and poor., with a perverse desire to promote a class struggle that allows them to take power and perpetuate themselves indefinitely in government, ”Fujimori said in his recorded message. “Win the elections and build a good government,” concluded Vargas Llosa in his conversation with Fujimori.

Colombian President Iván Duque participated with a pre-recorded message from the panel of special greetings, in which Vargas Llosa was also present. His statement comes amid the nationwide strike facing the country, which has already ended more than 23 days of uninterrupted protests including foreign intervention by the government and political leaders, and by Venezuela. been charged.