Venezuela-Colombia Border: why Maduro activated the "orange alert" on the border and what real consequences it can have

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Venezuela's border with Colombia is on "orange alert."

Or at least that was what the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced at an event at a military study center in Caracas this week.

And the president justified it by "the threat of aggression of Colombia against Venezuela."

Why Duque links Maduro with FARC dissident guerrillas
In addition, Maduro announced the execution between September 10 and 18 of military exercises called Sovereignty and Peace on the Colombian-Venezuelan border, as well as the deployment of a missile defense system there.

The Venezuelan government accuses the Colombian government of preparing "false positives," as they call the cases in which extrajudicial executions are carried out by dejected combatants.
From Colombia, President Iván Duque rejected Maduro's accusations.

"Colombia does not attack anyone. This is a country that respects the territoriality of other nations," said Duque.
How it all started?
Relations between Colombia and Venezuela have been far from cordial for years and every now and then the tension increases.

This latest dialectical escalation occurs following the video released on August 29 in which dissidents of the guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced their return to arms "in response to the betrayal of the Colombian state" peace process initiated in that country after the 2016 agreements.
Shortly thereafter, the Colombian authorities claimed that the video had been recorded in Venezuelan territory and Duque said that Colombia was facing "a gang of narcoterrorists who have the shelter and support of the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro."

Duque was echoing the well-known accusation that the Chavez high leadership has links with the guerrillas and drug trafficking.
Then came the Venezuelan reaction blaming the Duque government for boycotting the peace process.

Maduro's "orange alert" has been just the last episode of an old divergence.

What does the "orange alert" mean?
Shortly after Maduro's speech was over, many asked this question.

Diosdado Cabello, president of the National Constituent Assembly and considered one of the most powerful leaders in Chavez Venezuela, said in his weekly television program that "it is the step in which the entire Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) enters a state of surveillance".

According to Cabello, it had been made clear to the Colombian government and army that "if they enter Venezuela they will have an immediate military response."

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But Rocío San Miguel, president of the NGO Control Ciudadano, which monitors the actions of the Armed Forces and security forces in Venezuela, told Efecto Cocuyo digital media that "the alert does not exist as an operational concept within the National Armed Forces."

"It is likely that Maduro has been confused with the issue of hurricanes," adds San Miguel.