Venezuela demands an end to the killing of social leaders in Colombia

A total of 34 activists have been killed in Colombia so far this year, while 1,320 people have died since the peace agreement signed in 2016, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia said, stressing the need to stop these killings.

In several messages on the social networking site Twitter, the Minister of Foreign Affairs denounced the occurrence of all these crimes “before the impunity sponsored by the narcotic government of Ivan Duque” and stressed “from Venezuela we continue to demand urgent measures from the international community in this regard. A brotherly country.”

To Mr. Duque, we recommend that you stop deceiving yourself by pretending to mediate international disputes, when you cannot resolve disputes in your own country. “Try, in the short period I left as Vice-President, to get a glimmer of dignity and stop being a vulgar pawn,” the Venezuelan diplomatic chief said in his letter.

On March 2, Colombia’s Institute for Development and Peace Studies (INDEPAS) confirmed that three people were killed in Colombia in the 20th massacre recorded so far this year in the country.

Meanwhile, the Special Judicial Authority for Peace this week ordered the government to set up a security guarantees committee and adopt a plan to dismantle criminal organizations that kill ex-combatants.

He explained in a statement that the Justice and Development Party’s Non-Recognition Department took this decision after verifying the absence of an institutional strategy to prevent violence by criminal groups.

According to the balance given by the section, 306 signatories to the agreement were killed, of whom 10 were women, including an indigenous woman from Cauca.

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