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"I see close up" the fall of the Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela, said the outgoing president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, a few days after leaving the head of the government. State. "I see up close, a country with inflation that Venezuela has," say a million percent of the International Monetary Fund that will arrive, "this regime must collapse" said the president
Asked by the agency Agence France Presse (AFP), Santos felt that the best thing that could happen in Venezuela and Colombia, which share a border of 2 200 kilometers, is that Maduro falls, I wish "peacefully". If this has not happened yet, it is because, according to Santos, the Venezuelan government is exercising a "more and more effective crackdown", which has even deterred new mass protests. "There is a paradox: the more the population likely to be repressed suffers, and that is what the Maduro regime has maintained," he said.
Jaqueado by the crisis, Maduro announced that "it will regulate the sale" of fuels
However, insisted Santos, "hope it tomorrow" will put an end to the Maduro government, against which " Colombia I would be more than willing and ready to help in any way possible ". In this sense, he recalled that his government offered Maduro "humanitarian aid, food or medicine" for Venezuelans who "physically die of hunger". But the Venezuelan leader is "in an already irrational state of denial because he says no, that there is no crisis, that he does not need to". help, then in this situation it is very difficult to do anything more for this regime "
Throughout his eight-year tenure, Mr. Santos went from a recomposition to virtually frozen relationships with the government of Maduro, guarantor of the pact of peace with the government The FARC guerrilla group was dissolved and the ongoing negotiations with the rebels of the guerrilla of the ELN It even abstained to appoint Ambassador to Caracas and hardened its position against Maduro after the convening and installation, in August 2017, of a National Constituent Assembly controlled by Chavismo of 1.000.000% projected by the IMF for Venezuela seems weak
Following the severe economic crisis that hit the Ven ezuela, and which according to the International Monetary Fund has triggered inflation that would reach 1,000,000% in 2018, Colombia It has received an unprecedented wave of immigration: more than one million Venezuelans have entered the Last 16 months and most have the intention to stay, according to official reports. Despite escalating tensions, Santos said that a military confrontation between the two neighboring countries has never been close . I have never stopped criticizing or showing my surprise or opposition to any action that went against democracy or human rights, even recognizing Venezuelan support for the efforts of peace in Colombia, said Santos
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