Government of Venezuela withdraws its ambassador in Colombia and evaluates his replacement

The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduroreported this Monday that the country’s ambassador to Colombia, Félix Plasencia, is retiring from office to take over “100%” of his functions as executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), for which reason the Caribbean nation evaluates who will be his replacement.

“The new executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP), Félix Plasencia, (who) leaves the Venezuelan embassy in Colombia, has already joined his duties. We will designate a new ambassador in Colombia or a new ambassador, we are evaluating,” said the president after a meeting with the high political and military command.

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In this regard, he pointed out that plasencia “(100%) is incorporated into the tasks of executive secretary of ALBA-TCP to strongly promote the recovery of PetroCaribe”, an oil acquisition agreement between Venezuela and several Caribbean countries that was founded in 2005 and was suspended in 2019 due to US sanctions against the South American country and the drop in Venezuelan production.

Plasencia was appointed last December as the new Secretary General of ALBA, replacing the Bolivian Sacha Llorenti.

The appointment came to light during the summit of heads of state and government that was held in Havana on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of the creation of the bloc.

plasenciaMinister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela between 2021 and 2022, had been his country’s ambassador to Colombia since September, after the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two nations with the arrival of Gustavo Petro to the presidency of the Andean country, last August.

Source: Elcomercio

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