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Russian President Vladimir Putin on the left and US President Donald Trump speak on their arrival for a family photo during a summit session of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Association (APEC). in Danang, Vietnam, Saturday, November 11, 2017. (Photo AP / Hau Dinh)
Bogotá (EFE) .- Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos today asked his counterpart American, Donald Trump to ask the Russian president, Vladimir Putin to stop supporting the Venezuelan regime Nicolás Maduro . "To help resolve the crisis in Venezuela, I ask President Trump to ask Putin to stop supporting the Maduro regime" Santos writes on Twitter.
On May 21, Putin congratulated his colleague from Venezuela for his re-election in the presidential elections He declared himself ready to continue promoting cooperation between the two countries.
Putin "was convinced that the activity of President Maduro at the head of the state will ensure the development of strategic partnership relations that exist between the two." According to the Kremlin communiqué, Venezuela found in Russia a "strategic ally" of its multilateral policy, as well as a supplier of weapons, technology and other resources.
the presidency of Hugo Chávez (1999 -2013) a revival in various fields such as energy, the army and cooperation that Maduro has maintained throughout his tenure.
Since 2013, Venezuela has been immersed in a deep crisis economic, political and social that led thousands of citizens of this country to seek refuge in other countries such as Colombia .
On June 13, the director of Frontera with Venezuela, Felipe Muñoz badured that more than 39 one million people have emigrated from Venezuela to Colombia in the last 15 months, including 819,000 with "permanency". "
Muñoz added that of these 376,572 are regular, while 442,462 were recorded in the administrative register of Venezuelan migrants, made between April 6 and June 8. EFE (I) [19659003] cpy / arm
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