Colombia talks intervention in Venezuela
former president and current senator of Colombia, is not ruling out the possibility that the best way to help Venezuela overcome its serious humanitarian crisis, caused by the Maduro dictatorship, is through a domestic intervention with the support of the international community.
The pronouncement came at the end of XXIV summit of the Circle of Montevideo that took place in Bogotá. According to Uribe, the proposal does not intend to install a military regime, but to establish a framework for a future time of “democratic certainty.”
“We must intervene in Venezuela for humanitarian reasons, but that intervention will not be an international intervention, it has to be a domestic intervention supported by the international community,” he argued.
Security analyst John Marulanda said Uribe’s calls must be understood in a context of military victory.
“When we talk about domestic intervention, it could be an internal intervention from within Venezuela prompted by its own military. Or it could be only regional, given the international context in which Russia, China, Iran, and Turkey, Canada, France, and the US may have reason to get involved.”
In September, Uribe put before the Senate the situation of Venezuelans fleeing the Maduro regime, which according to estimates of the Duque administration, in the worst case scenario could reach four million immigrants in 2021 reports PanAm Post
He expressed the need to seek, together with the international community, “legal paths for intervention in Venezuela.”
“It is necessary for the international community to seek the legal paths for intervention in Venezuela, as proposed by President Iván Duque,” affirmed Uribe.
