The Minister of Defense of Venezuela, Vladimir Padrino, confirmed this month that even militaries were killed during the fighting in a frontier zone with a group of dissidents from the FARC.
“Hasta el presente se han dado nueve bajas de estos grupos terroristas y, lamentablemente, hemos sufrido la pérdida de ocho compañeros de la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana (FANB), dijo Padrino en una comparecencia sin preguntas acerca de los marates que comenzar the state of Apure (frontier with Colombia).
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The information provided at the time of the castrations has been widely used and has not been disclosed to any armed group, except that he has provided photos of uniforms with the logos and sails of the ancient guerrilla guerrillas. Also various associations with members in the zone have confirmed that there is treatment of the Farc.
Padrino also confirmed that the group formed members of the band against the fighters and that, in addition to the 8 casualties, provoked herids to 34 uniformed “who had received medical assistance in the military health rescue”, of the 21 ” he high altitude with all his treatments ”. During the operation, he deactivated 16 minas anti-personnel installed by the armed group that, reconnaissance, had affected soldiers and “terrestrial media of the operation”.
The Venezuelan state of Apure is believed to have been the epicenter of a political uprising, in which numerous illegal armed groups caused a brutal and permanent state abandonment. While the accusations of vienna on behalf of the governors of Colombia and Venezuela, achacandose responsibilities, about 6,000 people are going to Arauquita (Arauca) huyendo of a conflict they to them.
Sebastiana Barráez, a Venezuelan periodical who specializes in military themes, explained in his diary on March 27 that this Venezuelan ejaculation “has caused a mountain of cases and has detained many people. And although it is not clear what the situation is, the women are detained, there are indications that some of them are civilians, that they are not guerrillas ”. In videos known by The Spectator can be saqueaded deals while the local community denounces the military.
“Where the operation took place (March 21) is an area called the Urdaneta Parish, in the municipality of Paez, in the state of Apure. In this zone, in particular, the structure of the front 10 of the Farc-Ep has been created more. And so it was, because Arauquita was the most powerful control zone of the Farc previ to dismovilation. From Victoria and its rural area, the front 10 has the capacity for social and economic control, no territorial directive, but it is controlled and has the narcotics control routes “, said Naryi Vargas, social investigator on territorial security issues in this diario March 27th.
Specific Activan zona de defensa
Padrino commented that, by order of President Nicolás Maduro, he had activated a “special integral temporal defense zone” in the area, which would be commanded by Divisional General Alejando Javier Benitez Marcano with “a coordinating mayor”.
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It will also activate an integral brigade, named Negro Primero, including the mandate of General Wilfredo Alexander Medrano, “to whom it will assign the military units and equipment that are necessary”. Asimismo, the Minister of Defense explained that Maduro “had ordered extraordinary meetings”, which included the conformity of “a security zone in the municipalities of Paez, Muñoz and Romulo Gallegos”, all of them in Apure and in which he unveiled the Mayor los bestry.
As part of these media, the FANB’s Operational Strategic Command will design and execute “public security special plans that hagan front on destabilizing actions” that warn against peace, personal security and “guarantee” and guarantee ” the internal order, the peace and the human rights ”.
Asimismo, commenting that this command, underwent the operational zone of full defense of Apure and in conjunction with the civil, regional and municipal authorities, “the fines of guarding the human rights”, establish restrictions and timetables for transit.
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In the same way, it imposes “timetable restrictions on the operation of public and private spaces”, in addition to providing security measures during the “to ensure public services and the peace of mind”.
The military has inspections
Finally, Padrino stated that the military deployed in the zone “could carry out inspections of furniture and furnishings in compliance with the laws and regulations governing”, as well as “dismantling illegal occupations of public property affected.
También also warned that the military units “intervene to restore free transit in urban or rural areas in case it is interrupted”, in addition to marching “other actions that guarantee free development and peace in the region”. According to the Minister, three weeks of education and 17 deaths, “the region is living to normalcy”