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In response to the allegations Venezuela broke off diplomatic relations, and there was speculation of a possible war. The crisis was resolved after Juan Manuel Santos was inaugurated as the new President of Colombia on 7 August 2010, and the intervention of UNASUR bringing together Santos and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Chávez told the ...
The embassy is also accredited to the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, and the Republic of Suriname. [1] The embassy is charged with representing the interests of the President and Government of Colombia, improving diplomatic relations between Colombia and the accredited countries, promoting and improving the image and standing of Colombia in the accredited nations, promoting the Culture of ...
Colombia and Venezuela re-established diplomatic relations on 11 August after a three-year break. [110] [111] Petro announced plans to resume peace negotiations with the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas, which had been suspended after the 2019 Bogotá car bombing, where more than 20 cadets at a police academy were killed. [112]
Trade between Colombia and Venezuela could hit between $800 million and $1 billion this year, Colombia's Trade Minister German Umana said in Caracas on Wednesday. Trade between the neighboring ...
Since taking office Aug. 7, Petro not only has re-established diplomatic ties with the Maduro regime, but has officially asked for Venezuela’s admission, alongside Chile and Argentina, to the ...
Relations between the two countries have warmed in the nearly two weeks since Gustavo Petro was sworn in as Colombia's new president. The full reopening of the Colombia-Venezuela border will come ...
In August 2007, after two years of diplomatic absence in either country, normal relations were re-established with the appointment of former foreign minister Roy Chaderton as Venezuela's envoy in Mexico City and the transfer of Jesús Mario Chacón Carrillo, formerly Mexican ambassador to Colombia, to Caracas.
In 1969, Colombia formed what is now the Andean Community along with Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru (Venezuela joined in 1973, and Chile left in 1976).. In the 1980s, Colombia broadened its bilateral and multilateral relations, joining the Contadora Group, the Group of Eight (now the Rio Group), and the Non-Aligned Movement, which it chaired from 1994 until September 1998.