Maduro receives the Colombian foreign minister and strengthens his relationship with Petro

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, received the Colombian Foreign Minister, Álvaro Leyva Durán, on Tuesday afternoon, at a time when Caracas acts as guarantor of the restarted peace agreement between the government of Gustavo Petro and the National Liberation Army (ELN).

Maduro received Foreign Minister Leyva Durán at the Miraflores Palace, the Presidency’s press service reported in a television broadcast.

The arrival of the Colombian foreign minister strengthens relations between Caracas and Bogotá since President Petro took office last August.

Since Petro, of leftist political affiliation, arrived at the Casa de Nariño, has taken steps to improve its relations with Maduro, as was the reopening of the Colombian-Venezuelan border at the end of September and has requested that the university degrees of Venezuelans residing in Colombia be approved,

This same Thursday the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, left Colombia after a visit in which he cataloged as a “wonderful model” the migratory integration strategy that the government has implemented to deal with the ongoing flows of migrants.

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