The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, said this Tuesday (27) that the United States government needs to send former dictator Nicolás Maduro back to Venezuela so that he can be tried by courts in the Caribbean country.
According to information from the newspaper El Tiempo, the leftist president made the comment during an event in Bogotá, in which he once again criticized the military operation in which Maduro was captured by American forces on the 3rd.
“The way to get over this [diferenças entre países] It’s not launching missiles at the poor. Bombing Caracas, the homeland of [Simón] Bolívar,” said Petro.
“[Os mecanismos judiciais de cada país] are the same, but he [Maduro] it needs to be returned and judged in a Venezuelan court, not an American one”, argued the Colombian president.
“And why? Because Latin American civilization is different from European Anglo-Saxon civilization. Although we also come from Europe”, he added, apparently forgetting that Venezuela’s justice system is equipped by Chavismo – it even endorsed the fraud in the 2024 presidential election that kept Maduro in power.
Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were taken to New York, where they face charges in American federal court on charges of narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, possession of machine guns and explosive devices and conspiracy to possess machine guns and explosive devices.
After Maduro’s capture, American President Donald Trump suggested that he could also carry out a military operation in Colombia. In response, Petro called Trump “senile” and said he was willing to “take up arms” to defend the country.
However, the tension between the two presidents was calmed after speaking by phone on the 7th and Petro will be received by Trump at the White House next Tuesday (3).
