Akrapovic Posted May 9, 2019 Posted May 9, 2019 President Nicolás Maduro warned on Wednesday of a possible "military escalation" from Colombia, following denunciations from the neighboring country about the presence of more than a thousand ELN guerrillas in Venezuelan territory and a violation of their sovereignty. There is an escalation of statements that could end in a military escalation on the border of these criminal forces of Colombia against Venezuela (...) and everything is part of the plan of US imperialism, "Maduro said in a televised address. "I have ordered special precautionary measures at the border. To all the military units of the border, maximum alert, "said Maduro, without specifying what provisions he was referring to. Maduro's statements come after Wednesday the commander of the Colombian Military Forces, General Luis Fernando Navarro, denounced that almost half of the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) take refuge in Venezuela. The Colombian Foreign Ministry also denounced on Wednesday an incursion of some thirty Venezuelan soldiers in its border territory. Maduro is in the midst of a struggle for power with the opposition Juan Guaidó, recognized as interim president by fifty countries, who on June 30 led a failed uprising that failed to break the support of the Armed Forces to Maduro. From Bogotá "they accuse us (...) to justify some military conflict, when it is the other way around, it is Venezuela that is attacked from Colombia," said Maduro. "Everything is part of the miserable plan of (the president of Colombia) Iván Duque, who dragged the government of Donald Trump puts at his service to Colombia for an aggression against his sister Venezuela," said Maduro. The president guaranteed that his is a "country of peace", but his Armed Forces "are prepared to defend the sacred territory of Venezuela in any circumstance, whenever and wherever".
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