Juan Guaidó travels from Colombia to Miami
The Colombian Foreign Ministry assured that it was not expelling the Venezuelan politician, and that "the ticket had already been purchased by him."
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Juan Guaidó traveled this Monday from Colombia to Miami. As reported to CNN by a source close to the Venezuelan opposition leader, the politician boarded a plane of the Colombian airline Avianca at 11:00 pm, local time.
Although many were those who claimed that this crossing was, in reality, an expulsion by Colombia, the Colombian Foreign Ministry assured that this was not the case. The politician, they assured in a press release,"was in Bogota in an irregular manner". For that reason, Colombian Immigration escorted Guaidó to El Dorado airport with the intention of "verifying his departure on a commercial airline to the U.S.". However, they reported that the Venezuelan politician was not expelled from Colombia, but that he had bought the ticket himself hours before his departure:
Juan Guaidó made his statement shortly after the Colombian Foreign Ministry issued the press release. According to his own tweet, he was leaving the country because of"direct threats" to his loved ones, which, he said,"extended to Colombia":
Guaidó traveled to Colombia to participate in summit on Venezuela
The Venezuelan opposition leader took that flight after fleeing on foot hours earlier to Colombia. According to Guaidó in a press release, he was doing so to participate in the summit that President Petro was organizing in the country on Venezuela:"They want to silence my voice and that is something they are not going to achieve," he said in his statement.
Colombian Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva said in statements published by Infobaethat, contrary to rumors that had arisen, he had not invited Guaidó to participate in the summit:
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