Former President Iván Duque believes that international intervention in Venezuela would avoid a humanitarian crisis

Former Colombian president Iván Duque insisted this Saturday that Venezuela’s opponent
Edmundo González He must ask for international intervention in his country, as he believes that this would avoid a humanitarian crisis after the questioned inauguration of Nicolás Maduro on Friday.

“González, as legitimate president of Venezuela, and in the face of usurpation, must call on the international community and especially the countries of the inter-American system, as well as other countries committed to democracy, to carry out a humanitarian intervention in Venezuela that allows the protection of human rights and the reestablishment of democratic order,” Duque said in X.

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The former president, who governed Colombia between 2018 and 2022, stated that the perpetuation in power of the Chavista leader “is going to generate a humanitarian crisis without proportions and intervention, legitimate and with international precedents, is a mechanism to avoid it.”

“That intervention must be accompanied by a request to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to accelerate the arrest warrant against Maduro and with an even greater increase in rewards for Maduro. It must also include an instruction to the Venezuelan Military Forces to to join this intervention,” Duque added.

During his government, the former president was one of Maduro’s biggest critics, he led a diplomatic siege against the Venezuelan Government and even helped the opposition, then led by Juan Guaidó, in February 2019, to try to enter tons of humanitarian aid across the border. Colombian.

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Maduro, leader of Chavismo, was sworn in on Friday as the president of Venezuela for the period 2025-2031 by the National Assembly (AN, Parliament), controlled by the ruling party, despite the fact that the majority opposition claims that Edmundo González Urrutia was the winner of last July’s elections.