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The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, María Ángela Holguín spoke with THE FM about the Venezuelan crisis she had to face during her administration.
The most difficult moment, he said, was lived in August 2015, when Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela decided to expel 20,000 Colombians, during which he saw the suffering of the nationals. In April 2016, he saw how Maduro took away the powers of the National Assembly during which the government of President Juan Manuel Santos decided to call his ambbadador in Caracas for consultations, a measure that still persists.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs badured him that it was wrong "to see the neighboring country collapse" and remembered how was his relationship with Nicolás Maduro when he was also chancellor.
he said, he was a person who listened, who conciliated, but who changed radically . "Nicolás Maduro was a different person, he is a dictator."
Holguín explained that because of this situation they changed their discourse with Venezuela because opted for dialogue in the first instance but He insisted that There was a before and after with Maduro when he removed the powers of the National Assembly, which was mainly the opposition.
Now, after the Venezuelan migration to Colombia, Foreign Minister Holguín said: "The Colombian health system can not deal with the magnitude of the migration problem."
The Minister of Foreign Affairs underlined, among other issues, good relations with the neighboring country of Ecuador despite the presence of FARC dissent. In this sense, she highlighted the joint work with the government of Rafael Correa, as well as that of Lenin Moreno.
With regard to the United States, the Minister of Foreign Affairs considered that if this country insisted on asking Jesús Santrich In extradition, it is because he has very strong evidence against him. In any case, he stressed that beyond this case, bilateral relations are strong.
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