Chavismo warns that he can invade Colombia

The Venezuelan armed forces are in a position to invade Colombia in case of attack and it would take only 11 seconds to reach Bogotá with its fighter jets, said a spokesman for the government of President Nicolás Maduro.

"In 11 seconds, a Sukhoi Su-30 (plane) is in Bogotá," said Pedro Carreño, Minister of the Interior of the Government of Hugo Chavez and currently a member of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) ) composed solely of Chavistes and self-declared plenipotentiary.

Venezuela has at least 20 operational units of Sukhoi Su-30 combat aircraft, Russian-made and similar in nature to the US F-15E Strike Eagle, according to the EFE agency.

"In the face of the military aggression threatening Colombia, we will first nail this flag to Bogotá," said the leader during an interview with Globovisión.

Carreño, who made this statement with a Venezuelan flag, added that the hypothetical "invasion forces" could not penetrate into cities like Maracaibo, San Antonio or San Cristobal, all located in the west. from Venezuela and close to Colombia.

The voter said that a possible war would be fought over Colombian territory and warned that the Venezuelan armed forces knew the coordinates of the main facilities of the neighboring country, such as bridges, reservoirs and refineries.

"We have the coordinates of the" narquiño palace "(an ironic reference to the Casa de Nariño, seat of the Colombian government); El Nogal district, where the oligarchy lives; El Quimbo Reservoir; from the refinery of Barrancabermeja, which is the largest in Colombia, "he said.

"Or do Colombians think we are morons and we will let them invade?", He asked.

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Carreño, however, rejected a recent article in the Colombian magazine Week, who reported suspected links between the Maduro government and irregular groups in order to destabilize Colombia. Documents published each week indicate that some 1,500 Colombian guerrilla fighters are of Venezuelan origin.

"What are we going to do with 1,500 fighters if we have Colombia, which is mounting an aggression, a military escalation?" Carreño said. "We have two million militiamen who train openly every day in the training centers of our country, who have their rifles".

The spokesman said Venezuela had at least 12,000 gunmen armed with Dragunov rifles, which he said were "foolproof".

"A cartridge is a fallen enemy. that is, if all the militiamen shudder every 12 hours, there will be 24,000 invaders that we will drop in one day; alive will not leave who dares to walk with his foreign boot in the homeland of Bolivar, "he said.

Colombia and the Venezuelan government are experiencing a new spike in diplomatic tension since Maduro announced last week its intention to deploy an anti-aircraft missile system at the border and hold military exercises that began yesterday.

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Colombian President, Iván Duque, replied that it was a "bravado" of Maduro and reiterated that the leader was protecting the leaders of the guerrilla organization National Liberation Army (ELN) and Iván Márquez, Jesús Santrich and other officials of the dissolved persons. Farc who abandoned the Colombian peace process and resumed their arms.

Relations between the two countries have been broken since last February. Colombia is one of the 56 countries not to know the mandate initiated by Maduro last January to make him understand that he emerged from irregular elections and recognizes Juan Guaidó at the head of the Venezuelan state.

US Pressures: Call for the conviction of Argentina

He hopes that he "has interest in defending the rights".

The United States insisted that the resolution of the crisis in Venezuela "is a very, very important issue" and sent a message to Todos Front presidential candidate, Alberto Fernández, saying that Washington had built "better relations" with the country who have aligned themselves with the Maduro government and hope that Argentina "has an interest in defending human rights".

In addition, he expressed his unwavering support for Colombia in a climate of tension at the border.