Another day of violence in Venezuela: shots were recorded in Cúcuta

We will not surrender, we want freedom, "said a resistance group on the Colombian side.

The Simon Bolivar International Bridge has witnessed new situations of violence. Young people aged between 20 and 25 met in the region that links Venezuela to Colombia. Hooded and with Molotov badtails, they badured that "they were waiting for orders" to pbad. They also threw stones, gunshots were heard and fires were in the meadows at the side of the road.

A group of Venezuelans identified as part of the "resistance" wanted to unblock the border restrictions imposed by the government of Nicolás Maduro to prevent the entry of humanitarian aid.

With their faces covered, they tried to remove the truck that was blocking traffic and even threw some of it toward the Táchira River. "They call a truce on the Venezuelan side, but it can be an ambush," said one of the people quoted under the bridge.

Under the Simón Bolívar bridge, in Colombian territory but only a few meters from Venezuela, young Venezuelans met on Saturday to lead the human column that sought to pave the way for international humanitarian aid: they are now trying to cross the border.

"We will liberate Venezuela, we will not surrender, we want freedom," said the resistance group a few minutes after the launch of a truck part that cuts the bridge.

Moments later, other protesters sprinkled alcohol on the side meadows on the road to set them on fire. And the answer soon arrived; from San Antonio, on the Venezuelan side, shots were heard; so they all ran to cover themselves behind the concrete columns of the bridge.

Among the elements with which this group of resistance has explosive elements are distinguished. They even showed the possession of a grenade in front of the TN camera.

"I think that at any moment a tragedy can happen, that's what they are looking for with their constant provocations," said Vanesa, a Venezuelan volunteer on the Colombian side.

Meanwhile, 11 members of the Venezuelan armed forces have deserted in the last hours to travel to Colombia, which received 167, reported Monday the newspaper Migrations.

Two of them, from the Bolivarian national armed force, arrived accompanied by their anti-drug dogs. "We despise the government we have," said one of them, escorted by Colombian soldiers.

Of the 167 that have defected to date, 157 have entered through the Norte de Santander department, of which Cúcuta is the capital, and 10 by the Arauca department, said Migración Colombia in a statement.

(Source: TN)