Monday, April 5, 2021

Venezuela: más de 6.000 desplazados en frontera con Colombia por enfrentamientos

 

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 Se cumplieron 15 días desde el inicio de los combates en la frontera entre Colombia y Venezuela, allí el Ejército venezolano se enfrenta a la guerrilla del ELN y a disidencias de la antigua guerrilla de las FARC por el control de negocios ilegales.

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  • Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that Caracas will seek UN assistance to clear mines left by Colombian armed groups in the border area.


"[Foreign Minister] Jorge Arreaza is directing a communication to the Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, to request immediate emergency help from the United Nations … so that they bring all the technology to deactivate the minefields left by these irregular groups of murderers and drug traffickers from Colombia," Maduro said in a Sunday address broadcast by state TV.

The president assured that all irregular groups from Colombia were going to be removed from Venezuela and that the entire territory of Apure was going to be "liberated."

    On March 21, the Venezuelan Armed Forces launched Operation Bolivarian Shield 2021 in the western state of Apure on March 21 in an effort to root out Colombian militancy from the border area. According to the Venezuelan Defense Ministry, several camps were destroyed, weapons were seized, and dozens of people were detained. Several Venezuelan servicemen have died in the operation, including two soldiers who were blown up by mines on April 1.

Venezuela says they are trying to control the border with the tacit approval of Bogota.

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