Joseph Biden is, for the most part, the President of the United States who best knows Colombia at the moment of assuming power. His travels and experiences led him to one of the principal allies of Washington in Latin America. Without embarrassment, his allegiance to the Casa Blanca came with zoosobra for the Governor of Ivan Duque, who assumed the risk of quarreled after having cultivated the privileged social status of Donald Trump.
The Flemish Democrat presides over referring to the Andean country as the “angular power” of Washington’s exterior politics in Latin America. It was one of the great promoters of the Plan Colombia that led the anti-narcotic and counterinsurgent alliance between Bogotá and Washington to the commencement of this voyage, when he was congressman at Delaware, and as Vice President Barack Obama resolutely respected the dialogues of La Habana, which agreement between the Governor Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018) and the extinction guerrilla of the FARC. “With a congratulations abrasion, the deseamos to the best”, wrote during the actions of the position of mercols on Twitter also the mercantor of the Nobel de Paz for this difficult fact: “the world needs it”. Santos is one of the South American personalities who has developed a close relationship with Biden in the wake of his public career dilatations.
His successor, Iván Duque, a critic of the accords, was one of the first representatives of the region in reconquering Biden’s victory in the November elections, and congratulating him on appearing an effort to sanitize the heirs who killed the individual supported by the Center Democratic, Gobierno’s party founded by former President Alvaro Uribe, to Trump’s campaign campaign in Florida’s critical state – from which Biden was finally forced into a pirate victory. Without embarrassment, the new mandate team has a priority during the transition to communicate with other Latin American presidents as much as with the Colombian, as is its tradition. Duque was an intimate ally of the Republican, with a notorious notion with respect to the crisis of Venezuela’s vices and the “diplomatic circle” against the regime of Nicolás Maduro – he pesed some frictions on the high levels of elicited cultivars in the Andean country -.
The Colombian mandate, as it is a year and a half in power, takes place in the “historic” lazas between the two countries. In a minute and middle official statement to express his best wishes to Biden lie of his position, the defense of democracy, the lie against transnational crime, narcotics and terrorism as some of the “common goals” of those aseguró de enmarcar com “binacional, bipartidista y bicameral”. The Colombian Executive has just reproached that the uribism – as known as the current political crisis in the President – has broken into the North-American campaign a tradition of neutrality that will only bring the support of party members to the Congress conciernen al país andino.
Bogotá has been shown full courtesy of Trump’s White House in the process of electing President of the Inter-American Bank of Development (BID) to Mauricio Claver-Carone, Trump’s candidate. Duque supported the decision and decided on a post that would remove a written rule in order for the country to travel to a Latin American, and predictably divide into the region – among the first bidenes of Biden as president electivion the mandates of Argentina, Chile that intentions of Claver-Carone–. Due to the participation of politicians from the Center for Democracy in the campaign in Florida, misinformation and allusions to “castrochavismo”, the term used by Uribe to attack the peace process, which most molestation caused between operators of the demo party.
“If there is the honor of being elected president, the reconstruction of our alliance with Colombia will be one of my priorities in foreign policy”, Biden wrote in the final report of the campaign, in a map directed to the Colombians, and the Colombian community estadounidense, published in The Sun Sentinel, a periodical on the south of Florida, as in El Tiempo of Bogotá. Colombo-estadounidense Juan González, who worked at the White House during the Obama term, will be the director for the New Occupational Hemisphere of the New Administration. The analysts point to a tense reassessment of the relations between the companies obliged to cooperate in various fronts.
The question about the cost of this insanity is a politically charged arrears – as the various analysts are currently advising, including Trump’s call to the capitol – plan on Colombian diplomacy. With the Democrats, the unification of the international relationship is not just about Venezuela’s or the lucha anti-drugs, it also extends to the human rights at the moment the Gobierno Duque has not been able to detain the incessant as well as social leaders as excommunication que firmaron la paz –248 segun el ultimo informe de la mision de la ONU–. In this context, from various opposition sectors demanding the ambassador’s salute in Washington, Francisco Santos, Vice President during the two Uribe periods (2002-2010) as architect of the response to Claver-Carone’s candidacy for the BID.
Increase pressure on Venezuela
In addition to the historic ally, Colombia is also key to the United States on its paper on Venezuela’s strategy, probably the mayor’s focal point of instability in Latin America. In line with the Trump administration, Duke sided with the regional leader of the opposition leader Juan Guaidó, in the hope of the possible Biden Giro turn to the Venezuelan crisis. Antony Blinken, nominated as the new Secretary of State, on some days during the Senate confirmation hearing: Maduro’s call for a “brutal dictator”, he said that he would like to meet Guaidó as interim president and also in the Assembly elected in 2015 as the only democratically elected institution in the country. Including manifesto coincides with Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, one of Trump’s supporters, in the need to “increase the pressure on the regime.”