The Venezuelan security forces keep track of the violent groups that operate in the country and have “extraterritorial ties” to “put them at the order of justice,” Interior Minister Remigio Ceballos said on Sunday.
“We keep track of the groups that generate violence, with extraterritorial connections, to bring them to justice. We will not allow alterations to the internal order and we will be frontal in the fight, direct in action and guarantors of peace,” the Venezuelan official wrote on Twitter.
The minister’s statement was a response to the request that Nicolás Maduro made this Saturday to military officials to keep “their guard up”, in the face of alleged plans by the president of Colombia, Iván Duque, to activate “terrorist attacks” against the electrical system national and members of his government.
“In his impotence, in his hatred and in his defeat, Iván Duque wants to take revenge on Venezuela, so keep your guard up,” Maduro asked the military yesterday during an act of promotion broadcast on state channels.
Meanwhile, the Duque government rejected these accusations by the Venezuelan president this Sunday and called them “liars, cynical and irresponsible,” as a statement from the Colombian Foreign Ministry refers.
“As is customary, once again the dictator Maduro launches smoke screens accusing the Colombian government of alleged actions against Venezuela, a country that we Colombians and our government deeply respect and love. These accusations have no basis, “said the Colombian Foreign Ministry.
The document adds that what the Venezuelan ruler is seeking is “to try to divert attention from the delicate political, economic, social situation and the violation of human rights that Venezuela is suffering.”
Next, he adds that “this smoke screen comes out precisely today (this Saturday), when the world knows of the presence, and possibly the death in Venezuelan territory of ‘Iván Márquez'”.
Regarding the issue, President Duque said on Saturday that the authorities are verifying the information on the alleged death in Venezuela of the top leader of the FARC dissidents, Luciano Marín Arango, alias “Iván Márquez.”
