Caracas, Venezuela.
The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, He asked this Wednesday at Navy forcess that “Clean the cannons“Dels rifles in case your Colombian counterpart, Ivan Duque, dare “a violate sovereignty “ of your country and “Touch a millimeter” of their land.
“I have told the Bolivarian National Armed Forces to forcefully answer the reckless statements of Ivan Duc on Venezuela, que answer them word and clean them cannons of our rifles to answer him on the plane we must answer him if he dares to violate the sovereignty of Venezuela, if he dares to touch a millimeter of Venezuelan territory, “he said Mature.
At a press conference in which he did not directly mention which statements he was referring to, he criticized the creation of a “Special command”.
This Monday, the Venezuelan opposition leader Joan Guaidó talked to duc and highlighted “the creation of the comando specialized against the drug trafficking and threats transnationals “like” another demonstration of commitment of Colombian Government to fight the scourge and the ringleaders of hidden narcoterrorism in Venezuela under the protection of the regime of Nicolás Maduro “.
On several occasions, the Colombian authorities have reported that the ringleaders of the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissident groups of the FARC are in Venezuela.
On February 6, the Colombian magazine Setmana published some photos in which it is seen several heads of a dissent of the Armed FARC while they were, apparently, in Venezuela, what Maduro described then as a “false positive “.
This Wednesday and in reference to these accusations he qualified them of “refrigerated.”
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“On the subject of guerrilla warfare, it ‘s a fight they don’t believe in Colombia nor in the world, is it a refrigeration, so be it I qualify, It is a refrain that seeks, a week ago, to divert Colombian public opinion from the serious problems that exist with the pandemic“, He has postulated.
On the situation at the common border, the Venezuelan president stressed that, throughout the 70 years which considers that the armed conflict in Colombia lasts, “the guerrilla parties of Colombia (…) of groups of different ideological sign “have swarmed through a region” abandoned by the Colombian state “.
“You are leaving the Colombian side and there are no authorities, noand Policeand, there are no military, there is nothing, they have given the border to him, for a long time to the mafias (…) Also in this border is what is left of the Colombian guerrilla“The remains of the Colombian guerrillas”, he added before giving the order to “clean the cannons” of the rifles. EFE