Gustavo Petro met Manuel Rosales, the governor of Zulia, who registered at the last minute of the deadline that the authorities had given to register candidacies. Petro also spoke by phone with Antonio Ecarri, according to Venezuelan sources.
He has been very critical of the disqualification from participating in the elections of María Corina Machado, an opponent with real strength who could defeat Maduro, so the polls say. Petro described Machado's disqualification as an "anti-democratic coup" It was thick language that he had never used before, and it was surely agreed that Petro would visit Caracas on Monday, but there was no meeting. Instead, a meeting was organized between Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Murillo Murillo and Luis Gil Gil, in Cúcuta, on the Colombian side of the border, in a bid to calm the situation. The response of the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Gil, was very harsh: he accused the Petro Government of interference and of being at the center of a coup.