The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is increasingly providing ...
CARACAS - The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is increasingly providing shelter to Colombian rebel groups, a senior State Department official said in an interview, days after former FARC guerrillas announced a new offensive.
“We’ve known for some time that the FARC and ELN enjoy safe haven inside Venezuela,” said the official, referring to the separate and smaller guerrilla group the National Liberation Army. “And it’s even more clear now that they do so with the complicity of the Maduro regime.”Maduro accuses the United States of seeking to overthrow him, and usually dismisses State Department accusations as politically-driven smear campaigns.
And Colombian authorities are concerned that the ELN is seeking new recruits among the flood of Venezuelans who are streaming across the border to escape the country’s economic crisis. The presence of Colombian armed groups in Venezuela is further complicated by widespread access to guns in the troubled country, which suffers one of the world’s highest rates of homicide.
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