President Gustavo Petro Urrego proposed to unblock the Special Drawing Rights that Venezuela has in the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and channel them to social needs of that country, in this way, he stated, migration to the United States through Darien area.
“I propose to Venezuela and the United States to unblock the SDRs, Special Drawing Rights, of Venezuela in the IMF, which are their property, and process them through the Development Bank of Latin America, CAF,” said the head of state in his account. X (formerly Twitter), commenting on the publication of the newspaper El País, from Spain.
According to El País, “$3 billion in Venezuelan assets held abroad will be released in the coming weeks.”
The newspaper note explains that “the assets will be managed by the UN and will be used for works and sanitation to improve the lives of Venezuelans.”
“The step taken by the UN and the US to unlock Venezuelan funds that are invested in social functions is excellent,” said President Petro in the same message on X.
“Unlock Venezuela, hold free elections, reduce methane emissions in Venezuela and end the exodus through the Darien to the US,” he wrote.
In a previous message, on the same network, President Petro indicated that “if we really want to stop the humanitarian disaster of the exodus through the Darién, we must economically unblock Venezuela.”
Hours before, Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva Durán held a meeting in Bogotá with the White House National Security Advisor, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall; the head of the United States Southern Command, General Laura Richardson, and the Undersecretary of State for Management and Resources, Richard Verma, to analyze joint plans to confront irregular migration across the border with Panama.
