The deputy of the National Assembly (AN) for the state of Táchira, Juan Carlos Palencia, assured that to date, they have processed more than 200 claims from relatives of citizens who have disappeared on the trails that divide Venezuela and Colombia, and pointed out that these places are still occupied and managed by irregular groups and criminal gangs
The deputy of the National Assembly (AN) for the state of Táchira, Juan Carlos Palencia, exposed the need to create a bi-national commission to investigate the more than 200 complaints it has received about disappearances on the irregular roads (trails) of the border. The proposal was made by the parliamentarian during a special session convened by the Congress of the Republic of Colombia, in the border city of Cúcuta.
“The problems still persist at the border, and the reports of disappearances in this area do not stop. To date, we have processed more than 200 claims from relatives of citizens who have disappeared along the trails that divide the two nations, where they are still occupied and managed by irregular groups and criminal gangs,” Palencia explained.
Palencia was the only Venezuelan parliamentarian to attend the call that was made regarding the decentralized session of the Special Commission for Territorial Planning of the Congress of the Republic of Colombia, in order to follow up on the reopening of the Colombian-Venezuelan border.
The Venezuelan deputy, a member of the AN Border Affairs Commission, ratified the need to “evict violent groups” from the border area between Venezuela and Colombia.
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