Through a public Communiqué, the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, urged Colombian President Gustavo Petro to deal with the issues that afflict the people of his own country, after he offered statements in which he spoke about arrests in Venezuela.
In the text, the head of the Moral Power addressed the president in terms of respect, but also with the forcefulness of someone who defends the interests of the country and objective truth.
In this sense, he asked the Colombian ruler to urge him to carefully supervise who enters the territory of his country, since many of the captured mercenaries who planned to disturb the peace of Venezuela have come from there.
Likewise, he expressed his surprise at Petro’s lack of a statement regarding the statements of former presidents Álvaro Uribe and Iván Duque, in which they called for a military intervention against our country.
Saab urged the New Granadean president not to repeat the speeches of those who want to oppress the continent through extremism, and invited him to reject violence, by respecting the sovereignty of Venezuelan institutions and to distance himself from the positions of those who created large areas in Colombia as mass graves.
Following, the full text of the Communiqué:
Dear President Petro: Take care of the serious problems of Colombia and we will solve those of Venezuela
Your Excellency President Gustavo Petro:
“I read with surprise your latest statement on a social network, in which you refer to the people detained in different criminal proceedings in our country.
Well-known and respected President, with whom I once shared meetings and ideals of emancipation for our Great Homeland: Venezuela has been and continues to be threatened from Colombian territory by criminal narco/paramilitary groups that control a good part of the territory under your jurisdiction.
I must remind you that it was in Colombia where the mercenaries hired by a nefarious foreign company were trained and from where they embarked to come and unleash a bloodbath in our country. This happened in full view of the Colombian authorities and to this day there is not a single person prosecuted for these acts.
The top leaders of Colombian narco-paramilitarism, Álvaro Uribe and Iván Duque, have even threatened Venezuela again with a foreign military intervention, in a public and notorious manner, a fact in the face of which you have remained silent.
In the weeks leading up to the inauguration of President Nicolás Maduro, dozens of mercenaries have been captured entering our territory from Colombia. Do your country’s security agencies not know who enters and who leaves your country?
For the sake of peace on the continent, you should verify that Colombian security agencies fulfill their duties and protect the border that we share.
You celebrate the release of a person, as an exceptional event, apparently due to ignorance of the Venezuelan reality: Since the end of last year, more than 1,500 people who were detained during the violent actions that followed the election on July 28, have been released. This Public Ministry continues to review these and other cases in order to provide the benefits of the law to those who are entitled.
In a context of transnational and multifactorial aggression against Venezuela, which we have described as the ultimate test of a hybrid war against our country and its institutions, we have defended through the Civil Military Unit: democracy, stability and internal peace in an exemplary manner, with full respect for constitutional guarantees and Human Rights.
It is well known that within this unconventional war there is participation of some non-governmental organizations, which receive funding from USAID: a context that you cannot, in the interest of being objective, ignore.
Dear President, I do not see the Head of State Nicolás Maduro Moros interfering in the internal affairs of Colombia. We respond when, from Colombia, the enemies of Venezuela vilely attack us to unleash terrorist acts.
With all due respect, I say to you: You must take care of Colombia, which has multiple and serious problems: here we take care of ours. Do you think that by attacking Venezuela you will be saved from the executioners who threaten our popular democracies? Don’t you think that your speech is too similar to that of these characters who turned vast regions of Colombia into a mass grave? What do you gain by resembling these serial killers? Peace on the continent needs a different approach from you, in your capacity as Head of Government.
The Venezuelan people and the Colombian people are united by powerful ties since the times of independence. We have a shared culture and we wish to strengthen the binational relationship for mutual benefit.
That is why we wish for a Colombia at peace, as we have achieved in a colossal way that there is peace in Venezuela. May America be a land free of paramilitarism and paid lackeys who ask for invasions of sister countries.”
Caracas, January 16, 2025.
Tarek William Saab
Attorney General of the Republic
