The president, Gustavo Petro, suggested This Saturday, January 25, Venezuela face “together“To the Eln guerrillas, which perpetrated an unprecedented massacre on more than a decade.
The president reacted to a statement from the Venezuelan Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino, in which he expresses his intention to “collaborate” with his neighbor for “consolidate La Paz “.” Just go to practice together. Hammer and Yunque “against the National Liberation Army (ELN), said Petro on Network X.
Sponsor said Saturday that Venezuela It is willing to help Colombia “increasing communication levels” between the two countries. The extreme left guerrillas, which according to experts operate from both sides of the border, lashed out against the civilian population and dissidents of the extinct Farc in the Catatumbo (Northeast) region, leaving a balance of more than 80 dead and at least 38,000 displaced.
Godfather He denied that Venezuela serves as a “platform” for armed groups, as Colombian intelligence agencies have suspected for years and as the opposition ensures. Some of the people who left their homes for fear in the Catatumbo crossed Venezuelan territory, where the Government of Nicolás Maduro activated a help plan.
Sponsors gathered Friday in the border city of San Cristóbal With his Colombian couple, Iván Velásquez. The ministers sought exits to the humanitarian crisis that Colombia is experiencing for the attack in the Catatumbo, an enclave for drug trafficking.
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The catatumbo.
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Colombia still tries to decipher how eln mobilized So far troops from the nearby department of Arauca, its main bastion on the border, without being discovered by the authorities. Organizations claim that the ELN has the approval of Chavismo. Human Rights Watch, for example, ensures that Venezuelan Security Forces have “carried out operations” by the guerrillas.
Godfather, that denies Those accusations added that Venezuela mobilized military the borderline and will not allow “the actions of any type of armed group”. The attack tension Petro’s relations with Venezuela, which had been showing fractures after the questioned re -election of Maduro as president in 2024. The Colombian president did not attend the investiture on January 10 and now refers to him as “the person who exercises the Presidency “of Venezuela.
