{"id":7916,"date":"2022-09-14T06:37:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T10:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=7916"},"modified":"2022-09-14T06:37:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T10:37:59","slug":"maduro-venezuela-will-be-guarantor-in-colombian-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=7916","title":{"rendered":"Maduro: Venezuela Will Be Guarantor in Colombian Peace Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a ceremony marking the start of the judicial year at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 22, 2021. In a calm if desperate-sounding voice Eyvin Hernandez, a Los Angeles attorney detained for months in Venezuela, said in a Aug. 21, 2022 recording provided to The Associated Press, that he and other Americans imprisoned in Venezuela \u2014 at least 10, including five oil executives and three veterans \u2014 all feel “like our government has abandoned us.” (AP Photo\/Matias Delacroix, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro on Tuesday said his government will act as a \u201cguarantor\u201d in peace talks between Colombia\u2019s government and the National Liberation Army rebel group that are slated to begin later this year.<\/p>\n

Maduro said on national television that he had accepted a request by Colombian President Gustavo Petro to take on the diplomatic role, adding that his socialist government was interested in fomenting peace, security and stability in Colombia and \u201cthroughout the continent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previous peace talks between the Colombian government and rebel groups have included the participation of \u201cguarantor nations\u201d that have acted as observers of the negotiations and supported both sides with logistics.<\/p>\n

Venezuela was a guarantor nation in a previous round of negotiations between Colombia and the National Liberation Army, or ELN, that began in 2016. But the Colombian government asked the Maduro administration to step down from that role in 2018, as political tensions increased between the countries. The following year Venezuela broke off diplomatic relations with Colombia after its government participated in a U.S.-led effort to force Maduro out of office.<\/p>\n

Petro has begun to normalize relations with Venezuela since he was elected earlier this year and became Colombia\u2019s first leftist president.<\/p>\n

Diplomatic relations have been re-established and the border between both nations will be reopened to cargo trucks later this month.<\/p>\n

The National Liberation Army operates along both sides of the porous 1,500-mile long border between both nations. In a report published earlier this year, Human Rights Watch said that some division of Venezuela\u2019s military had conducted joint operations with the National Liberation Army against another group of rebels operating within Venezuela, in order to obtain control of drug trafficking routes.<\/p>\n

The Venezuelan government has denied claims that it supports the National Liberation Army.<\/p>\n

– Jorge Rueda, AP News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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