Statements made by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Executive VP Delcy Rodríguez during the Second Bi-national Tourism Exchange "Venezuela-Colombia".
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00:00:30We are live to Caracas at this hour, where the President Nicolas Maduro is offering statements.
00:00:59The President is offering statements during an exchange of the bi-national touristic
00:01:04summit between Venezuela and Colombia.
00:01:10We are seeing a great audience formed by experts and diplomats accredited in the country as
00:01:21well as the local press.
00:01:25Let's listen to the statements of also the Vice-Executive President of Venezuela, Delsi
00:01:37Rodriguez, who is present at this bi-national exchange of touristic matters between Venezuela
00:01:45and Colombia, is attended by members of the diplomatic body accredited in the country
00:01:57as well as experts and journalists from both countries and international media accredited
00:02:07as well in the country.
00:02:13At this moment, the Executive Vice-President of Venezuela, Delsi Rodriguez, is offering
00:02:19statements.
00:02:23She is asking for an applause, a round of applause, for the integration of the diplomatic
00:02:33relations between Venezuela and Colombia.
00:02:38The Executive Vice-President is remarking the transcendence of this moment for the relationship,
00:02:47the diplomatic relationship between Venezuela and Colombia.
00:02:51Let's listen to the statements.
00:02:52We can provide boost in enterprises from Colombia can be translated into social happiness
00:03:16for the Colombian and Venezuelan people.
00:03:22Thank you, President.
00:03:24Thank you, Vice-President, for accompanying us today and for your support for the touristic
00:03:31sector.
00:03:32Thank you to all the people present, the businessmen and women present of Venezuela.
00:03:43This second encounter represents the second binational work presented by the Vice-President
00:04:00throughout the border today following the instructions of our President.
00:04:06We have visited the region to boost all of those touristic routes and accompany our people
00:04:16to creating routes in a process of before, during, and after 149 routes that we have
00:04:28validated.
00:04:30After giving 112 communal councils, more than thousands of people have visited national
00:04:43and international.
00:04:45The idea of this encounter is to strengthen this relation with the countries.
00:04:56We always work together, all of this international campaign, to strengthen tourism, as our President
00:05:05asserts, to keep growing not only economically but also socially because tourism is a fundamental
00:05:14element that impacts in all of the economic sectors.
00:05:18Thank you very much, everybody.
00:05:20Today this journey starts.
00:05:22It's going to be successful.
00:05:26Almost 190 events are planned among Venezuelan and international business people.
00:05:36Thank you once again for the support, and let's keep building our homeland.
00:05:44That is correct.
00:05:47You're going to see a video now for all the people watching this beautiful encounter,
00:05:54a lot of people from Colombia, a lot of people from Venezuela, because one of the most beautiful
00:06:01things we have achieved is activate President Gustavo Petro and I in this new stage of understanding
00:06:15with respect since the first day it has been tourism.
00:06:23Tourism is a way of expression of the brotherhood between Venezuela and Colombia.
00:06:34We get Colombian families.
00:06:37When I went to Merida, I got new families.
00:06:41In Margarita, I got new families.
00:06:45And here in Caracas also.
00:06:50And also I know about marvelous experiences when we opened the Dienditas Bridge, immediately
00:07:04lines there were lines of Venezuelan families to visit Pamplona, Bucaramanga, to go through
00:07:19the Páramo, and we can see Venezuelan families traveling throughout the whole Colombian geography.
00:07:29It's something beautiful that we have to boost.
00:07:34It's sharing, in this case tourism, sustainable tourism, beautiful tourism that allows to
00:07:48get to know each other more as people enjoy the food, music, the way of being, social
00:07:57climate of each country.
00:08:01Then the second encounter by national of tourism between Colombia and Venezuela is essential
00:08:10because I have very good news from the economic advancement of Colombia and Venezuela.
00:08:17Let's watch this video.
00:08:21This was our first edition.
00:08:31And now, second edition Venezuela-Colombia.
00:09:47And now, third edition Venezuela-Colombia.
00:10:13And now, fourth edition Venezuela-Colombia.
00:10:41Something beautiful, isn't it?
00:10:57Life must be beautiful.
00:11:00What is the point of life?
00:11:04Any happiness?
00:11:09What is the point of life?
00:11:11Be bitter and unhappy.
00:11:17What is the point of an ugly life?
00:11:22We always have to ask ourselves, what is the point of life?
00:11:27The point of life is happiness.
00:11:31Our liberators set Simon Bolivar in Angostura on February 15, 1819, in a speech to install
00:11:43a Congress of Angostura, constitutional Congress that founded Colombia since Orinoco.
00:11:53Something beautiful, Colombia was founded in Orinoco.
00:11:57It was the original idea of Francisco de Miranda.
00:12:01The flag with three colors that unifies our two countries was drawn by our General Francisco
00:12:15de Miranda.
00:12:18First time this flag was raised, it was in Haiti.
00:12:24These are signs of history of March 12, 1806, and after it was an example for the liberator
00:12:38armies that went through 8,000 kilometers and fought all of the battles, Carabobo, Boyacá,
00:12:49and 200 years ago, they were getting ready to fight the definite battle against the Spanish
00:12:58empire in La Pampa, 4,000 meters high.
00:13:06Your grandfather, your grandfather, our grandfathers were there.
00:13:11It's a beautiful story, the one that we have.
00:13:15Therefore, we say with Bolivar, remember Bolivar in front of the Orinoco on February 15, 1819,
00:13:28when he said, your doctrine is ours.
00:13:34The best government system, after traveling throughout the battlefields, after being defeated
00:13:44twice in the First and Second Republic, after several attempts of killing him were carried
00:13:53out in Jamaica, Cartagena, Bolivar, due to his maturity as a politician and a leader,
00:14:07he carries his doctrine forever, for centuries, and states the best government system is the
00:14:15one that grantees the biggest happiness for its people, the biggest social security.
00:14:25First time in human history, someone spoke about social security, and he was Bolivar.
00:14:33The biggest political stability, happiness, security, and stability, we would say in Venezuela.
00:14:45What a genius ahead of its time.
00:14:48That is why tourism, besides being an economic engine that generates wealth and investments,
00:14:59it is the best way to make human beings happy, and if it's between Colombia and Venezuela,
00:15:08to get closer to our people peacefully, peace and more peace.
00:15:16Two years ago, two years have been commemorated since we fixed all this.
00:15:29The federal president took his plane and came to Caracas, and after I left to Colombia,
00:15:35to the bridge there in Cúcuta, where some people assert that I was born.
00:15:46Selita knew me there when I was a child in a football game, a team who was playing against
00:15:59millionaires.
00:16:02And then we met, there we met, and we said, we're going to figure this out.
00:16:09We're going to open the borders.
00:16:13We're going to open all of the bridges and reestablish respectful relations.
00:16:22Greetings for our Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor Ivan Hill.
00:16:33Twice has been that I've said this to you, and we said we're going to reestablish all
00:16:40this.
00:16:42It cannot be possible that some people pretend that Colombia and Venezuela are at war.
00:16:52The peoples want to love each other and be happy, and we did such thing.
00:17:00And let's review some data.
00:17:03At a tourism level, Colombian-Venezuelan tourism that was in less than 1,000 has grown 46 percent
00:17:16the touristic flow between Colombia and Venezuela.
00:17:20And investments are growing from Colombians in Venezuela to invest in hotels,
00:17:32and aerial lines.
00:17:41Since flights are increasing, the touristic flow is different from what happens in trade.
00:17:50DELC's Minister Anabel, it's very different from what happens in trade.
00:17:56More tourists from Colombia to Venezuela than from Venezuela to Colombia.
00:18:03This means that investors of Venezuela should go to invest in Colombia to increase the touristic
00:18:14flow of Venezuela to Colombia, which has beautiful, natural places.
00:18:24It has the most beautiful natural places of the Earth.
00:18:28It's a marvelous country.
00:18:30Imagine if it was together with Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador.
00:18:39We would be a huge powerhouse.
00:18:44We will be such thing someday.
00:18:47We will achieve that confederation someday.
00:18:52Ambassador of Cuba, Russia, China, of Nicaragua, Bolivia, we will achieve it someday.
00:19:03Forty-eight percent of the growth in tourism, it was achieved because we have peace, respect,
00:19:14and cooperation.
00:19:15In that sense, there are several proposals to increase what is touristic products with
00:19:29several destinations.
00:19:31And I believe it's necessary to advance in touristic products.
00:19:38There are several which are very interesting.
00:19:41For example, touristic products, Caracas, Margaritas, Tatira, Bogota.
00:19:50Let's study them to see if we can increase them.
00:19:56Caracas, Santa Marta, Cartagena, such a huge population of Cartagena in Venezuela.
00:20:05Seventy percent of them are Colombian or have Colombian ascendance.
00:20:11Caracas, Los Roques, Pereira, Medellin.
00:20:14People of Medellin want to come to Los Roques.
00:20:19Approved, you can come to Los Roques.
00:20:22You know Margarita, you need to go and visit Canaiba.
00:20:27Look at this multi-destination, Caracas, La Habana, Varadero, and several destinations.
00:20:37We need to increase investments in tourism, which is an absolutely affordable and important
00:20:47investment.
00:20:49It is a secure investment, totally secure.
00:20:59Minister Leticia, what's your opinion?
00:21:02She was commenting about the business.
00:21:08We have created to generate between 180 and 190 business encounters each day.
00:21:17Last year with Cuba, we generated 190, but we have today presence of more than 200 business
00:21:27people of Colombia and Venezuela.
00:21:29So we're going to generate more business encounters.
00:21:34So the idea is to increase tourism in the region to become a touristic region and increase
00:21:41multi-destination products.
00:21:43In the case of a touristic invasion, we have to establish an investment catalog to generate
00:21:53these investments in a secure way with juridical advice and financial advice.
00:22:04All of this is ideas generated in the country.
00:22:09Well, you are at the head of this mission.
00:22:13Minister, please inform me to elucidate ways and approve results of this second bi-national
00:22:27encounter of Colombia-Venezuela of tourism and approve several new projects that are
00:22:34going to improve at the end of this 2024.
00:22:38Even when in Venezuela, we have declared Christmas since October 1st.
00:22:49What do we do?
00:22:54Bring happiness earlier, and then Malay in Argentina protests because Maduro has
00:23:04declared Christmas early.
00:23:08What does he have to do with Christmas?
00:23:15He is making bitter lives on Christmas in Argentina, and he is overwhelmed because
00:23:25Venezuela starts Christmas in October.
00:23:29Malay, the ones who repress elders and mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the same Malay ambassador
00:23:45of Palestine, the only governor of the world that supports bombings against hospitals,
00:23:55children, and women in Gaza and genocide that is taking place there,
00:24:03the same Malay of the satanic pacts.
00:24:07The only thing beautiful we have in Argentina is the beautiful people of Perón, Evita,
00:24:12and Maradona that are going to surprise you someday, Malay.
00:24:17So, Malay, in Venezuela, the party starts on October 1st.
00:24:31In the same way, in two years, we have increased by national trade.
00:24:41This is a trade which is real and true of a real economy that is reactivating itself
00:24:51as it should be in a secure way.
00:24:59Venezuela is not the Venezuela that imports everything.
00:25:03It is a country that produces and also starts to export quality products.
00:25:12And Colombia, which has quality products also, is starting to put them in the Venezuelan
00:25:19market in the times of the confrontation of the past that took place in the United States.
00:25:33Trying to lead us into a war by national trade achieved 200 million.
00:25:44Ambassador, Venezuelan and Colombian trade in the times of Alvaro Uribe was
00:25:54$10,000 million. Venezuela bought almost $9,000 billion in Colombia.
00:26:11And after the sterilized confrontations came, and it rised from $10,000 million to $200
00:26:25million, this year we have a growth right now in this moment from January to August 2023-2024
00:26:36by national trade. Colombia, Venezuela is still growing
00:26:42at a rhythm of 56 percent in the first eight months of the year 2024.
00:26:50And at the end of the year, we will surpass the figure of $1,000 million
00:26:59in trade from Colombia and Venezuela, a growth of 800 percent, President Petro,
00:27:07since we normalized our respectful relations between both states. And it's sustainable.
00:27:16That will keep growing. And I'm sure that in 2025, we will achieve $2,000 million.
00:27:28I was talking with President Petro on several occasions, little bit by little bit. It's like
00:27:36this sick person that had problems and starts to recover and return to his normal life.
00:27:49I always ratify this to the representative of the Colombian Embassy in this act,
00:27:55ministers. I ratify my proposal to start businesses,
00:28:01Mr. Vice President, since we have signed the best commercial agreements carried out between
00:28:11Colombia and Venezuela. I ratify my offer, my proposal to sign a great economic and industrial
00:28:20zone of investment, of inversion and trade between the border of Tachira and North Santander.
00:28:29I propose this and I ratify it. 56 percent in just one year. These are important figures.
00:28:48In that framework, also, we are working with CAF, Development Bank of Latin America and the
00:29:01Caribbean, and a great friend, Díaz Bernado, Colombian, a personal friend of mine, a great
00:29:11man that has helped a lot. We were talking in the framework,
00:29:22thinking big in a huge economic zone of development between North Santander and Tachira,
00:29:29and even beyond. We are ready to sign special conditions in the case of Venezuela in the
00:29:41framework of our juridical organization and special economic zones. We know that several
00:29:48of the countries here present, I won't mention any names, there are several countries here
00:29:54that are ready to invest in that economic zone. I won't mention any of them, but I'm
00:30:01seeing them. A lot of countries are ready to bring technology and money
00:30:10and develop all of these zones in North Santander to create a huge economic zone of peace and free
00:30:23area of mafia and all of this. We have, in a sense, the project of CAF, which is a project to
00:30:33build touristic bridges by national. Look at this. It's a beautiful historical area.
00:30:44Bolivar carried out the third constitutional congress in Cucuta.
00:30:52There, they established the basis of the government, and he was
00:31:00declared president, and all of that juridical basis was established so that the Liberator Army
00:31:07went to free the whole of America. Such marvelous times, but they will come back.
00:31:15Look, build touristic corridors
00:31:30that don't involve Merida, which concerns me a lot. We will talk about it,
00:31:36and we will join touristic corridors between Cucuta and Villa Rosario.
00:31:47We have a museum of the Liberator there, Chinacota, beautiful people,
00:31:54Cacota as well. I don't know it, Ocana. My father lived there.
00:32:10When he was pursued there, the first place where he was hiding was in Ocana.
00:32:17I started last year of high school there, and then he went to
00:32:24Bogotá to study the National University of Bogotá to study economy and law. You didn't know,
00:32:31but you can Google it. Cucuta, Villa Rosario, Chinacota, Cacota, Ocana, Pamplona, beautiful
00:32:41that city with mountains and crafts. We will join it with the municipalities of
00:32:55Libertad, Independencia, San Cristóbal, Ayacucho, Lobatera, and the special
00:33:04travels to the beaches of La Guaira. This is already ongoing, financed by ACAF.
00:33:21Governor Jason Guzmán, how is the issue of Colombian and Venezuelan Merida tourism going?
00:33:30What can you tell us about it?
00:33:34Greetings, President. Thank you for this extraordinary initiative of the Ministry of
00:33:40Popular Power for Tourism. You have two important decisions that have increased
00:33:47the touristic exchange between Venezuela and Colombia. A few days ago, you repaired
00:33:58the path that connects Tachira with Venezuela and Colombia, but the most important element
00:34:07is the investment with the main touristic attraction for which Venezuelans want to visit
00:34:19our state for the importance that has the cable system of Los Andes to carry out the special pass
00:34:35from Colombia to Tachira until the state of Merida by land for the bridge we just inaugurated.
00:34:49The Aña Bridge connects the way until La Tendida and Tachira. That is a corridor
00:34:56I put you in charge of, and Governor Freddy Reynaldo, to open all of that corridor
00:35:05so that the Colombian people can enjoy the beauty of Merida State. That is approved.
00:35:13President, one last element, the international airport Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso.
00:35:20It is not only for the international exchange between Colombia and Venezuela,
00:35:25but most of the tourists that travel to Margarita Island come from Colombia,
00:35:36from North Santander until Vigia, and take the flight from Combiasa, from El Vigia to the city
00:35:45of Margarita, where the proposal with the Minister of Tourism is taking place to create an alternate
00:35:54airport with different destinations that communicate with the whole of South America.
00:36:00It is an airport that has an excellent geographic position. I am in agreement. If El Vigia can be
00:36:08an essential point of connection between Colombia, Venezuela, and South America,
00:36:14you can do it. Advance in that direction.
00:36:18Now, we go straight to my roots, Capache Nuevo. I remember the beauty of the
00:36:31warmth that the people received when we installed water service there.
00:36:38We were meters away from the Venezuelan-Colombian border. We went to the Simon Bolívar Bridge
00:36:50and walked with the people. Then we left for San Antonio and visited Capache Viejo Nuevo,
00:37:00the people on the street. I met with relatives of mine because in that village,
00:37:13the remains of a great-great father are there. Moros and Christians also multiply there.
00:37:25In Capache Nuevo, in the sector of Agua Miel, we need an Agua Miel with lemon.
00:37:35We are going to activate and validate touristic routes,
00:37:40touristic routes,
00:37:44Paramos Magical of Capache, Camino del Pederino Santo Cristo de la Grita,
00:37:52and Viaje al Corazón del Café Tachirense with Fred Aguirre Bernal Rosales. Go ahead.
00:38:00Good afternoon, President. Greetings also for the Vice President and ministers,
00:38:05Mr. Ambassadors and Majors, Liz Mendoza, Major of Alta Montaña,
00:38:16and Natalia Chacon, Major of Lobatera. Mr. President, along with what you have said,
00:38:23effectively, after opening the border following your instructions, the main effort we have
00:38:32done in Tachira is peace. Without peace, there is no inversion and no prosperity.
00:38:41So, this is a state firmly instructed by you where we have peace and that has allowed
00:38:50that we reactivate the economy, invest in inversion and trade following your instructions
00:38:59and boost the touristic area. After consolidating peace in the state, we have, counting hotels,
00:39:10we have 246 restaurants, 67 created in the last few years,
00:39:20in the recovering public spaces. We have 20 agricultural touristic complexes
00:39:34and 568 touristic operators. We have agricultural tourism and religious tourism.
00:39:50We also have high mountain and sports tourism. This is a beautiful state. First of all,
00:40:03the first attraction of this state is their people, religious, loving people. And second,
00:40:12we are men and women of work and effort. We don't expect anything from anybody.
00:40:18We just want opportunities like the ones you have given us to grow. That's why I always
00:40:26say it. I'm proud of the people of Tachira that didn't leave the countries and believe in El
00:40:35Tachira. Omar Guevara is here with me today. That is Ayago for the Popular Power. Laura Urbina,
00:40:44one of these entrepreneurs that invested in this project.
00:40:51I'm president of the touristic cabinet because here we have created a cabinet to
00:40:59work along with the Popular Power and develop politics.
00:41:06Here in Tachira, entrepreneurs and touristic operators feel incorporated to the government
00:41:13because we work with them on the plans and advance along with them. Here we have
00:41:21representative of the touristic ministry that is going to inform us.
00:41:28Thank you, Governor. Greetings, Mr. President. I want to inform you about what we are doing here
00:41:36in the Tachira state, a route that comes with 25 kilometers, experiences, and spectacular
00:41:46attractions. We count on 21 touristic routes of the 149 that we have in the whole national
00:41:57territory. We cover 23 states. Right now, Tachira state is the second one with most
00:42:08of the touristic routes after Merida. Merida and Tachira together cover 30 percent of the
00:42:18touristic routes of the country, so the acts permanently take place here. It's an example of
00:42:31the communities and the regional government accompanied by the national government.
00:42:38These routes not only allow the dynamization of our economy but also diversification of our products.
00:42:46Each of them in a radar for exportation, to export products. In Tachira, Venezuela,
00:42:56we have all of the conditions for tourists, international and national.
00:43:04We're going to talk now with Darius Salgado.
00:43:07Good afternoon. Greetings, Mr. President. Thank you to our Governor, Fede Bernal, our Minister,
00:43:19Leticia Gomez, our Major Attorney, Luis Mendoza-Chacon, and each of the representatives
00:43:30of our institutions, Marcos Valza, President of Tourism, Dr. Gonzalez-Zola, and all of the people
00:43:42that contributed to this. I truly thank you, Mr. President, for this achievement on behalf of the
00:43:51popular power, since the creation of this touristic route that covers our Páramo,
00:44:03which is a representation of our achievement, introducing our entrepreneurs,
00:44:14and, in the same way, helping and strengthening our farmers. There are 700 families
00:44:25working to achieve and increase productivity in our municipality. Thank you very much,
00:44:32Mr. President, on behalf of our municipality, and long live for all of you.
00:44:40Good afternoon, Mr. President. First of all, we have to thank you for taking
00:44:50into account the business people of El Táchira. We are carrying out a huge effort
00:44:58to create a product for export. We are in a hotel of Montemontana Aguamiel, a complex
00:45:07with more than 40 years, founded by my father, who was a pilot and was flying over these lands.
00:45:17Due to a failure on his plane, he came here and was welcomed by a couple of
00:45:28elders who gave him aguamiel. We named it like this.
00:45:32Then we started to develop this project through touristic critics and invited my husband and I
00:45:39to be part of this. My husband fell in love with this, and now he is president of the
00:45:44touristic chamber, and now he is a member, and he is leading this beautiful project,
00:45:52which is a novelty. Five first glamping of Venezuela, five stars. Also, we have a beautiful
00:46:01pool. This whole project is based on nature, the four elements that form it, water, earth,
00:46:11fire, and air. The most important of this project is human talent, which has been a Venezuelan
00:46:19talent. Everything involved here is Venezuelan talent, and the people who work here are also
00:46:30Venezuelan. To finish, sadly, my father passed away two months ago, but this was his happy place,
00:46:41and he passed happy because he saw his achievement finish. I know everybody visiting
00:46:52this place is going to be as happy as he was, and anybody who visits each of the touristic complexes
00:47:00because we have created exporting experiences like in Floriana, San Telmo, Santa Cruz,
00:47:09all of them are contributing to this, and we need to thank also the regional
00:47:16government because of the security they provide us. Well, President, as you said,
00:47:24the economy of El Táchira, along with Salvador's economy, I congratulate the Colombian people.
00:47:36We in El Táchira see a metropolis that starts in Cucurá, Villa Rosario, Capacho, San Cristóbal.
00:47:42So, President, more than 300,000 jobs and peace, and whole beauty,
00:47:58everything we have seen here. Los Angeles is a beautiful region, ambassadors
00:48:05for tourists to come from China, from Europe,
00:48:12from the Middle East, Europe. Chinese tourists like mountains
00:48:28and the mysteries that Los Angeles has. We have a goal, which is achieving a million
00:48:48tourists from China, and we need to ensure the flight from China, Venezuela,
00:48:57is a huge goal, but we need to think big when it comes to China.
00:49:08All of the people from Los Angeles, it's beautiful what we see, but the most beautiful of all
00:49:16are the words from Deity and Laura.
00:49:24Proud of their land, these two women enter the companies.
00:49:30And these are hotels of a huge, great quality. Everything is beautiful, everything is aesthetic,
00:49:48and has an important mark. We integrate each other with a natural beauty.
00:50:00In a natural way, we are the same. For two centuries, they have tried to divide us.
00:50:09For decades, ambassadors, anti-colonialism was cultivated, and Colombian people were pursued
00:50:18in Venezuela. I have explained this to all of the Colombian presidents I've met.
00:50:24Who ended with anti-Colombianism in Venezuela? Hugo Chavez, the commander who
00:50:31taught us to love the common history of Colombia and Venezuela.
00:50:38In Venezuela, you can't see an anti-Colombian expression in the streets, nor this disrespect
00:50:48that is over. You and I, we are ambassadors from the same generation. How old are you?
00:50:56Seventy. You are nine years older, but you were a witness.
00:51:08General Martinez Mendoza has the same age that Chavez would have.
00:51:16He graduated in the year 75. General Martinez Mendoza, our ambassador in Colombia,
00:51:22was a part of the school of Chavez and was his minister as well. We remember when he was
00:51:31minister of the presidency of Chavez. He remembers that we have Venezuelan people against
00:51:42the Colombian people. We need to inaugurate a new era between Colombia and Venezuela,
00:51:51an era of respect and love and joint work. Working in a common project must be
00:52:04a peace and economic development for the destiny of our people.
00:52:12Thank you very much, Freddy. Thank you very much, Altachira. Long live Altachira. Long
00:52:16live Venezuelan Andes, and long live Colombia and Venezuela. Look at all that we can achieve,
00:52:24and everything we can carry out with Colombia and Venezuela.
00:52:34In this stage we started two years ago. I'm aware that President Petro loves Venezuela.
00:52:45Dominant elites of Colombia don't love Venezuela.
00:52:54Dominant elites and oligarchies.
00:53:00President Petro doesn't belong to these classes. He's a man of the people,
00:53:08and I'm aware that as a president he wants the best for Venezuela. He wants
00:53:13peace, and we also want the best for Colombia. We want peace,
00:53:20and we will continue to help in everything we can do.
00:53:32I wish I could help more. I tell President Petro always when we talk, I would like to help more
00:53:44to accelerate business processes and sign peace agreements where Venezuela plays an important role
00:53:54quietly, because you will never see me declaring and my Minister of Foreign Affairs declaring about
00:54:03the internal affairs of Colombia. Have you seen our Minister of Foreign Affairs speak about
00:54:11Colombia? Have you seen Duro speak about Colombia? We are facilitators, officials
00:54:23of the peace process of Colombia, and we will never reveal a single word to the press
00:54:33about Colombia, because these are internal affairs of Colombia.
00:54:37And it is like this, and it must continue this way so that our relations keep growing at a
00:54:47political, cultural, and economic level. I know that President Petro is an honest man.
00:54:55He has denounced that the plans against him have been discovered,
00:55:04and we have expressed our solidarity with this cause. He has denounced that a coup d'état against
00:55:12him is being planned, and I know that the Colombian people will know how to impose
00:55:20the peace and democracy. President Petro knows that he counts on Venezuela
00:55:29and our government so that in Colombia
00:55:38peace prevails. But in the middle of that, we will keep continuing to build the best
00:55:49cultural, human, diplomatic relations between Colombia and Venezuela,
00:55:55long life for love between Colombia and Venezuela, long life for the union between
00:56:00Colombia and Venezuela. Congratulations for this bi-national encounter between
00:56:05Colombia and Venezuela. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Good luck.
00:59:31We were live to Caracas, Venezuela, during the Venezuela-Colombia's
00:59:35second bi-national meeting of businessmen and women from the sector of tourism,
00:59:40a meeting held to build a new path for the development of both nations but also to move
00:59:45the region forward and keep building a great joint homeland. During his intervention,
00:59:50President Nicolás Maduro assured tourism has been key to strengthen the relations between
00:59:55Venezuela and Colombia and recall the new lines of understanding and respect reached with Colombian
01:00:01President Gustavo Petro. With this bi-national meeting, Venezuela and Colombia proved their
01:00:06willingness to work together for social security, stability, and growth of both peoples through
01:00:12peace and respect. According to the President, in the past two years, both nations have increased
01:00:17their mutual trade and this is just the beginning of many achievements to come.
01:00:22This is all for the moment. Stay tuned with From the South.