Venezuela will ask the United Nations Organization (HIM-HER-IT) “Immediate help” for “disable minefields “ that irregular groups planted, according to Caracas, on the border with Colombia, where clashes have been registered since the end of March, the Venezuelan president announced this Sunday, Nicolas Maduro.

The Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, “He is directing a communication to the Secretary General Antonio Guterres of the United Nations to request immediate emergency help from the United Nations system so that they bring all the technique to deactivate the minefields left by these irregular groups of murderers and drug traffickers who have come from Colombia.”Maduro said in a televised address.

The Armed Forces of Venezuela carry out military operations in the state of Apure (west), on the border with Colombia, where strong clashes were registered since March 21, reported by the authorities of both countries.

Since then, these operations have left six soldiers and nine “terrorists” dead, as well as more than 30 detainees, according to the balance of the Venezuelan government.

Venezuela is facing “Organic groups linked to the Colombian Army, the government of Iván Duque” that “dress up as guerrillas to serve, simply, the drug trafficking routes”, according to Maduro, who stressed that two weeks ago he began his “eviction” from Venezuelan territory.

“We have evicted several camps from them already. They have left the mined territory, they have brought the practice of antipersonnel mines (…) to Venezuela. We have lost several Venezuelan soldiers to antipersonnel mines. Assassins! “, continued the socialist leader.

The Strategic Operational Command of the Venezuelan Armed Forces assured on Twitter that it had used “artillery fire against irregular armed Colombian terrorist groups.”

Maduro acknowledged last Sunday the possibility that dissidents from the dissolved guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) could be responsible for clashes with the military and attacks on civilians on the Colombian-Venezuelan border.

The president himself and other senior Venezuelan officials had avoided identifying the irregulars as dissidents from the demobilized leftist guerrilla.

The Colombian authorities indicated, for their part, that the operation was a coup against a wing of dissident FARC members.

Both countries, with a common porous border of 2,200 kilometers, broke relations after the Duque government recognized opposition Juan Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela in January 2019.

Even though Guaidó He is recognized as an interim president by fifty countries, with the United States at the helm, Maduro maintains control of power with the support of the Armed Forces.

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