Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced Friday his plans to visit Venezuela’s capital on April 24, as he continues efforts to arrange a meeting with Venezuelan interim president Delcy Rodriguez.
Speaking during an interview with Spanish public television network RTVE, Petro revealed that after a proposed border meeting between the two nations fell through, he would instead travel directly to Caracas later this month.
The two leaders had originally scheduled their first face-to-face presidential meeting for mid-March in a Colombian border town, but both governments called off the encounter citing “force majeure” circumstances, though neither provided specific explanations at that time.
“The meeting at the border fell through because of certain precautions, she said there were security issues,” Petro stated in Friday’s television appearance.
Petro made these comments while participating in Barcelona’s “Global Progressive Mobilisation,” a two-day conference bringing together leftist political leaders from around the world. The event, organized by Spain and progressive political organizations, focuses on building opposition to far-right political movements globally.
