Venezuela's 'dictatorship' poses 'constant threat to democracy,' Duque tells UN
by Adriaan Alsema
September 23, 2020
President Ivan Duque (Image: President's Office)
Colombia’s increasingly authoritarian President Ivan Duque told the United Nations on Tuesday that Venezuela’s “dictatorship” posed a “constant threat to democracy in the region.”
In his annual address to the UN General Assembly, Colombia’s far-right president additionally claimed Venezuela’s socialist “dictatorship” is “sustained by drug money” and “harboring terrorists.”
Duque called on “all nations of the world” to raise their voices demanding truly free elections, and not the prefabricated orchestra to which they want to take the Venezuelan people to perpetuate the dictatorship.”
Colombia’s president is being investigated over his own ties to narcos after evidence revealed Duque’s Democratic Center party conspired with a drug trafficking organization to rig the 2018 elections.
Unlike last year, Duque did not sustain his accusations with fabricated evidence and admitted his own government was struggling to combat drug trafficking.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/venezuelas-dictatorship-poses-constant-threat-to-democracy-duque-tells-un/
