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Venezuelan authorities confirmed the death of the 19 people in the border state with Arauca, said Snail News who added that, according to the Bolivarian Army, the guerrillas had taken the place.
A report by the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), cited by the La Patilla portal, indicates that the facts occurred in Urdaneta parish, Páez municipality, where the military advanced a operation “to combat and achieve the capture of alias ‘Ferley González’, who would be chief of finance for the 10th Front of the Farc.”
According to that media from the neighboring country, which again cited the GNB document, In the clashes, another 3 Venezuelan soldiers were also injured. Likewise, the news website added, in the operation 2 rifles, 2 pistols, 2 improvised explosive devices and 247 cartridges were seized.
Javier Mayorca, one of the first journalists in report the “shooting”, indicated on Twitter that 2 of the deceased soldiers belonged to the professional troop, while the other 2 were junior officers.
APURE GN reports an alleged confrontation in the Urdaneta parish, with elements of the new FARC. On the military side, 2 professional troops and 2 junior officers died, not identified in the initial part. 2 rifles, 2 pistols and explosives seized
– Javier I. Mayorca (@javiermayorca) September 19, 2020
On Saturday morning, Venezuelan journalist Sebastiana Barráez warned, also on Twitter, about the presence of several planes in the area and the arrival at the place of “men dressed in black, who speak Russian or a similar foreign language, to fly over drones “.
Due to what happened in El Nula and La Charca, there are two soldiers wounded. The Armed Forces have not yet released their names. But they were taken to the El Nula clinic and the place is full of military personnel surrounding the place. https://t.co/fYeopf9fRw
– Sebastiana Barráez (@SebastianaSin) September 19, 2020
Javier Tarazona, director of the NGO Fundaredes, mentioned for his part, in the same social network, than the “armed confrontation”, according to their sources, would have occurred in the early hours of Saturday and that “foreign men in black” participated in this, in addition to the aforementioned Venezuelan military and FARC dissidents.
I have been informed since the early hours of this Saturday, there was an armed confrontation in the vicinity of the Nula-Apure, testimonies indicate the participation of FANB soldiers, foreign men in black and members of the FARC guerrillas from the tenth front commanded by alías Ferley pic.twitter.com/dvjNRj322f
– Javier Tarazona (@javiertarazona) September 19, 2020
Tarazona had denounced on September 11, according to another of his trills published this Saturday, a Pact between the Eln and the Farc, backed by the Venezuelan government, in the state where the fighting took place.
Last Friday, September 11, we announced from @FundaREDES_ a pact between the ELN and FARC in Apure state for the control of criminal operations backed by the FANB and the Venezuelan state pic.twitter.com/vUmTMMPJv7
– Javier Tarazona (@javiertarazona) September 19, 2020
According to complaints that both the Venezuelan activist and the organization that leads, the government of Nicolás Maduro supports the presence of the aforementioned illegal groups in the neighboring country “To handle smuggling of fuel, gas, food, minerals and drug trafficking” in border towns with Colombia.
Populations on the border with Colombia have been used for years by irregular armed groups for their illicit activities. https://t.co/rqt2ljw9Bx
– FundaREDES (@FundaREDES_) September 20, 2020
The director of Fundaredes even related his complaints to the clashes this Saturday in Venezuela, of which he said on Twitter: “They are to consolidate the irregular operations of armed groups.”
Armed clashes on the Venezuelan border never occur to restore order or protect national sovereignty, they are to consolidate the irregular operations of armed groups, they are to demonstrate firepower in the control of what is illegal, what is today # 19 September is so pic.twitter.com/TSSGNhBQs9
– Javier Tarazona (@javiertarazona) September 20, 2020
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