Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has traveled to Colombia to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, an opposition lawmaker said Sunday.
Guaido's move comes amid an overture by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for direct negotiations with the United States on an end to crippling US sanctions.
Opposition lawmaker Stalin Gonzalez told AFP that Guaido, who is recognised by the United States and more than 50 other countries as Venezuela's acting president, will meet in Bogota with Pompeo.
The US secretary of state is scheduled to arrive in the Colombian capital on Monday at the start of a Latin American tour.
Guaido has been barred from leaving Venezuela since proclaiming himself acting president a year ago after the National Assembly declared President Nicolas Maduro a "usurper."