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This is CBS by On the World. I'm John Dutch. Columbia, the president of Columbia,

Gustavo Petro, is a veteran politician as well as once upon a time a member of a terrorism group called

the M19. Now however, Gustavo Petro is on a charm offensive to convince the United States and its allies.

Not only that Bogota is the stalwart of peace and security in the north of South America,

but also that there is a road ahead, a peaceful road ahead, to bring Venezuela, the rogue state of

Venezuela back into the international community. I welcome Mariana Stasio Grady of the America's

column and editor at the Wall Street Journal editorial board to help us follow this charm offensive

in New York, Washington, and Palo Alto, California, or mention, and what the intention is for Mr.

Petro. What's in it for him? Marry a very good evening to you. What's in it for him has to include

the news that Mr. Petro went back to Columbia, to Bogota, to MCI Summit about democracy, the next

election in Venezuela, and reintroducing Venezuela to the larger community. At that summit,

a suddenly a voice from the near past showed up Juan Guedo, who was momentarily recognized by the

United States as the real leader of Venezuela. Your comments on these events, it sounds high drama,

was it Marry? Good evening to you. Well, good evening, John. I think first of all, we have to

acknowledge that Gustavo Petro in trying to establish himself as a successful president in Colombia

has domestic problems, and he has international problems. And I think one of his goals here is to

make himself a kind of lynch pin in South America on the South American continent between the US and

Venezuela. He wants to make himself the mediator, the important party that brought the two sides

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