BOGOTA, Colombia — A Venezuelan human rights activist and a political consultant living in Colombia’s capital for the past year were wounded by gunshots in an apparently targeted attack, Colombian authorities said Monday.

Colombian police said in a statement that just past noon, Yendri Omar Velásquez Rodríguez and Luis Alejandro Peche Arteaga exited a building on Bogota’s north side and were shot by two unidentified people.

Both men were reported to be in stable condition at a hospital, police said.

Colombia President Gustavo Petro said on X that government security forces would expand their protection of human rights activists. “All Venezuelan citizens who seek asylum in Colombia, independent of their ideas, are welcome,” he wrote.

Colombia’s ombudsman’s office condemned the attack on

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