Duque wants to withdraw Colombia from Unasur, "sounding board" of Venezuela

VIIIth Conference on Statistics of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, at the headquarters of Unasur. Photo: Eduardo Santillán / Presidency of the Republic

The elected President of Colombia, Iván Duque confirmed today his intention to withdraw his country from the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), considering that it is a "Venezuelan Survey of Dictatorship" .

In an interview with Efe in Madrid, Duque said that in Venezuela "there is a shameful dictatorship, a satrap (President Nicolás Maduro ) who has devoted to destroy individual freedoms, to persecute the opposition, to silence the press " and, in addition, brought the economic crisis" the most severe "in the history of the country. 19659004] "I will promote the withdrawal of Colombia from Unasur, it is a sounding board of the dictatorship, we will support the denunciation of (Secretary General) Luis Almagro to investigate the dictator and his friends for their crimes and the International Criminal Court, "Duque, who was elected a few weeks ago and will take office on 7 August.

He recalled that one million Venezuelans moved to Colombia to escape the hardships of their country and that many others are in transit to different places

which is why he has advocated the creation of a "humanitarian aid fund" at the border, and that a number of countries are seeking some kind of "temporary protection status" to deal with this migratory flow, so that Colombia is not the only one

He was in favor of giving "tranquility" to Venezuelans in the sense that they would support them to have democracy and criticize the "indifferent speech against this dictatorship" that he has attributed to the current government of Juan Manuel Santos. EFE