Video | They denounce that Venezuelan planes flew over Colombian airspace

In the afternoon of Friday, April 2, residents of the town of Arauquita (Arauca), in the border area with Venezuela, recorded with their mobile phones an apparent invasion of Colombian airspace by combat aircraft from the armed forces of the neighboring country.

The videos were posted on the Facebook page of Arauquita Activa, a local media outlet in this municipality where some 4,700 Venezuelan citizens are taking refuge. fleeing the fighting that has taken place since the beginning of this week between dissidents of the extinct FARC guerrillas and the Venezuelan army in Apure state.

In one of the videos, the citizen making the video assures us that he is flying over the center of Arauquita in Colombia.

“Venezuelan planes in Colombian airspace here in Arauquita. It’s incredible! Everywhere in the city center, the impudence of these people is such “the man pointed out.

Despite this apparent invasion of Colombian airspace, Neither Iván Duque’s government nor the military forces have commented on this fact so far.

The plane’s presence comes amid a humanitarian crisis in this region of Colombia where displaced Venezuelans have arrived. in addition to fleeing armed clashes, they denounce human rights violations by the military in this country.

Precisely, Thursday, the ambassador of Juan Guaidó in Colombia, Tomás Guanipa, visited his fellow refugees.

“The testimony of horror experienced by these compatriots, without a doubt, will add to the long list of human rights violations of a regime which promotes terrorism and violence. Our team continues to be deployed in the area, monitoring the situation, ”Guanipa said.