Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's socialist regime rejected the claims made by Colombian drug trafficker Gustavo Petro on Wednesday.
Also known as villadiego Chiki Tomaro (“Bad Little Boy”) took over Dairo “Otoniel” úsuga David, the current leader and former leader of the Colombian clan's Del Golfo drug cartel. Arrest In 2021, he was sentenced to 45 years in 2023 on numerous drug trafficking charges.
Peter claimed through a Twitter post Wednesday that Villadiego had allied with the ELN within the territory of nearby Venezuela. Peter added that Colombian authorities have already seized 32 tons of cocaine from the Catatambo area and arrested “several mayors and politicians helping drug traffickers.”
“Alternatives to the Katatambo crops are essential to achieving peace. Caribbean violence revolves around ports and terrors. I have decided to change the entire port management,” Peter's message said.
“A special meeting will be held today to strengthen the attack on Clandergolfo,” he continued. “I expect Caribbean citizens to find information, clan leaders with legitimate confidentiality.”
Peter's statement sparked intense criticism from the socialist Maduro regime.
Colombian newspaper El Tiempo It has been reported On Wednesday, I once obtained a copy of an official letter from the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry in opposition to Peter's social media post to my Colombian counterparts and refusing to refuse responsibility for “dynamics that unfold origins and expansions in Colombian territory.”
“Such statements are deeply compassionate and constitute a small statement that ignores the Venezuelan state's firm commitment to combating drug trafficking and organized crime across borders, and a critical operational effort that the Bolivar Army (FANB) has been running for weeks to protect the sovereignty of its people,” the attention said.
The Catatambo region of Colombia is now the epicenter of a horrific conflict between Marxist Ern and the revolutionary Colombia (FARC) terrorist group, which is equally Marxist, over the control of the crops of Cocaca leaves, the main ingredient used in the production of cocaine.
The conflict is dramatically escalate In mid-January, after Ern broke an implicit “non-attack” agreement in 2022, where both terrorist groups agreed to and established restrictions on their respective territories of influence and illegal economic activity. The ongoing conflict has killed nearly 100 people and more than 60,000 locals have since been evacuated. march.
There are several reports released in recent years Condemnation That Ern began the process of expansion on Venezuela's territory, which effectively transformed it into a “bilateral” guerrilla army.
Although Ern has historically used Venezuela as a “refuge” from Colombian law enforcement operations since the 1980s, Marxist terrorist groups have established a solid foothold on Venezuela's territory as they were established under the aid of Hugo Chavez, the first to die on Venezuela's territory, thanks to their friendly relations with the socialist regime in Venezuela, establishing a solid foothold.
Unknown human rights activist cited by Venezuela outlet Armando Information April I explained it That Ern has a permanent presence “along the entire border” between the two countries, particularly in neighbouring states of Zulia and Tachira, setting operations in Colombia, with Venezuela's territory since at least 2020.
Venezuela's Minister of Home Affairs – and actively I wanted it Drug King – Diosdado Cabello Rebuttal Peter's latest broadcast accusations of his weekly socialist show Hit with a malleturges Peter not to bring Venezuela into your problems.
“I always ask him myself [Petro] You have to drag Venezuela into his scheme. In Venezuela, we are fighting head-on battles against all drug trafficking, paramilitary groups and terrorist mafia. What was achieved in Venezuela was thanks to Venezuela's intelligence news and anti-intellectuality,” Cabello argued.
“Why should the President of Colombia have to interfere with Venezuela? The question is where drugs are produced. Venezuela deployed more than 5,000 troops of the Bolivar National Army and police across its territory,” he added.
Cabello urged Colombia to denounce the Venezuelan regime and to stop explaining its neighbours as “throwing stones at their neighbors and you have to respond.”
