Panama offers Maduro temporary political asylum to resolve Venezuelan election crisis
Nora Gámez Torres
Fri, August 9, 2024 at 1:52 PM
The president of Panama said Friday he has offered Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro political asylum to facilitate a peaceful transition to democracy in the South American country amid backchannel negotiations led by Brazil to solve the ongoing political crisis.
President José Raúl Mulino told CNN en Español Friday that he had sent a message to Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da
Silva offering Panama as a transit point so that Maduro could leave Venezuela for a third country.
“I maintain the position of granting political asylum” to Nicolás Maduro, said Mulino. “If that is the contribution, the sacrifice that Panama has to make, offering our land so that this man and his family can leave Venezuela, Panama would do it.”
“If Panama is the transit country for a permanent exile of Maduro and his clan, then we would do it with the necessary security,” he added.