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MH | Venezuela fears ‘invasion’ after US military chief visits Colombia

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By Jim Wyss at [email protected] | Met foto’s

Venezuelan Bolivarian Militia members shout slogans against the Unites States during an anti-imperialist march to denounce U.S. President Donald Trump’s talk of a “military option” for resolving the country’s political crisis| Ariana Cubillos AP

BOGOTA, Colombia – Venezuela on Monday accused neighboring Colombia of planning a bombing campaign or a “military invasion” amid heightened tensions in the region and a mass exodus fueled by Venezuela’s collapsing economy.

“In Colombia, they are planning to revive eras that had ended in human history, like military bombing, a military invasion or the occupation, through blood and gunfire, of a peaceful country like Venezuela,” said Venezuela’s chief prosecutor, Tarek William Saab, according to the state-run AVN news agency. “We will not allow it.”

Saab didn’t provide proof of his allegations, but other regional allies pointed to the weekend visit to Colombia by Admiral Kurt Tidd, head of U.S. Southern Command.

Tidd and Colombian Vice President Óscar Naranjo met in the troubled coastal city of Tumaco on Saturday. According to the vice president’s office, they met to review bilateral efforts to stem the flow of drugs from Colombia’s Pacific coast.

Bolivian President Evo Morales, a staunch Caracas ally, however, called Tidd’s presence “suspicious.”

“Any imperialist military threat against our sister Venezuela, and our region, will be undone by the dignity, sovereignty and unity of our democratic countries,” Morales wrote on Twitter.

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Thousands of Venezuelans bid farewell to their homeland daily to start anew in neighboring Colombia

As Venezuela’s economy continues to crumble, thousands of its citizens are trekking into Colombia every day — sometimes by walking hundreds of miles on foot through the Andes — to escape chronic shortages of food and medicine, frequent looting and rampant crime. Bogota officials believe that as many as 600,000 Venezuelans are now living in Colombia, creating an immigration crisis. José A. IglesiasMiami Herald Staff

President Donald Trump last year alarmed Caracas — and, some argue, handed President Nicolás Maduro a propaganda gift — when he said he would not rule out a “military option” when dealing with Venezuela.

Speaking in Anzoátegui state on Monday, Saab underscored Trump’s warning.

“What did the people of Venezuela do to deserve to be bombed, like the president of the United States threatened?” he asked.

The tension comes as Venezuela is planning to hold presidential elections April 22 that the United States and its regional allies have said will not be free, fair or democratic. Polls show, and analysts suggest, that unless the opposition presents a united front, Maduro is likely to win an additional six-year term.

The statements also come as Venezuelan neighbors, including Colombia, Brazil and Guyana, have been tightening border controls in recent weeks to try to contain the flow of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants. As the country’s crude-dependent economy continues to collapse, Venezuela is buckling under food and medicine shortages and hyperinflation.

Bron: Miami Herald

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Venezuela fears ‘invasion’ after US military chief visits Colombia
Venezuela fears ‘invasion’ after US military chief visits Colombia
Venezuela fears ‘invasion’ after US military chief visits Colombia

10 reacties

  1. ericlapas en zijn zoveelste DOMME opmerking.
    Waar haal je toch deze onzin vandaan die je denkt interessant te maken-je bent gewoon een oer domme sensatie zoeker-houd je achterlijke opmerkingen maar voor je Familie kring..

  2. The the failed Bay of Pigs invasion attempt represented the nadir of Kennedy’s presidency. It was emblematic of the excessively hard-line advice from military and CIA officials he received. The agency and top military came up with a plan to train, fund and equip in Guatemala a group of Cubans who had fled their homeland and to assist them in an amphibious invasion.

    The Bay of Pigs invasion took place in a period when Cold War tensions were at their height. At a summit in Vienna, Nikita Khrushchev told Kennedy that the United States had to get out of West Berlin. JFK refused, and Khrushchev sealed off communist East Berlin by building the Berlin Wall. The following year Khrushchev triggered the Cuban missile crisis by deploying nuclear warheads in Cuba. Khrushchev’s main motive for sending nuclear weapons to Cuba was to deter a US invasion of the island. Thus, without the American-backed Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban missile crisis would most likely not have taken place.

    From Mark White: Missiles in Cuba: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro, and the 1962 Crisis (Ivan R Dee, 1997). Mark White is a professor of history at Queen Mary, University of London.

  3. Eric Lapaz… Plunderend door de steden… Wat voor vriendin heb jij hier.. Hier en daar bedelend. maar plunderend….. Is het een venezuelaanse vriendin ? Of eentje uit Peru ?

  4. Heb van een vriendin van mij in Colombia begrepen, dat de Venezolanen plunderen door de steden trekken.

    Kan je vriendin misschien de link naar desbetreffende website geven ?
    Maw haar bron ?
    Wil ik ook lezen .

  5. Heb van een vriendin van mij in Colombia begrepen, dat de Venezolanen plunderen door de steden trekken. Zij maken geen onderscheid tussen onschuldige meisjes en oudere vrouwen. Colombianen zijn er om bekend dat ze het recht in eigen handen nemen dus het wordt spannend.

  6. Ik geloof dat Maduro inmiddels wel met al zijn buurlanden ruzie heeft gezocht. Maar nog altijd lukt het hem niet om de ellende in zijn eigen land aan te pakken. Iedereen is bij hem schuldig aan het resultaat van zijn eigen fouten, maar de hand in eigen boezem steken is er niet bij.

    Gaat nog druk worden in de buurlanden wanneer 30 miljoen Venezolanen besluiten om Venezuela te verlaten.

  7. Maduro en partners zoeken van alles en nog wat om de aandacht af te leiden.
    Colombia gaat zich echt niet druk maken over Venezuela. En zeker niet om het aan te vallen…
    Venezuela zou zich eerder druk moeten maken over het feit dat Colombia de grenzen kan sluiten voor Venezuelanen die het land overspoelen.
    en dat is wat er nu aan het gebeuren is.
    In Colombia wordt de pueblo gesponserd met medische voorzieningen en kinderbijslag en eten etc. Dat begint men een beetje zat te worden nu om dat ook weg te geven aan de “elite” chévere Venezuelanen die altijd pochte over hun rijkdom en nu dus honger lijden.
    Vroeger konden ze het betalen in Venezuela. Ze zeiden hier altijd lachend als Colombia z{n grenzen sluit verhongerd Venezuela.
    Dat klopt dus. En goud is mooi maar je kan het niet eten.

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