Juan Guaidó: “Maduro’s alliance with terrorism and drug trafficking cannot be ignored”

The Venezuelan opposition on Saturday asked not to ignore President Nicolás Maduro’s relationship with FARC dissidents, after the publication of several photos showing several members of that former guerrilla apparently in the Caribbean country. “Maduro’s alliance with terrorism and drug trafficking cannot be ignored, it poses the greatest threat to the region in recent years,” wrote Primero Justicia party leader Tomás Guanipa, appointed as ambassador by opposition Juan Guaidó. .

For this reason, he assured they must “with great responsibility” “ask the international community for strong action to get Venezuela back”.

Guanipa accompanied his post with a video featuring the images published by the magazine Week in which former FARC chief peace negotiator, Luciano Marín, aka “Iván Márquez”, as well as Seuxis Paucias Hernández, aka “Jesús Santrich”, and Henry Castellanos Garzón, aka “Romaña”.

They all left the peace agreement to, under the command of ‘Iván Márquez’, form a dissent called ‘Second Marquetalia’, announcing their return to arms on August 29, 2019, accusing them of ‘treason of the state’ . to the Havana Peace Agreement ”. The magazine assured that the Colombian government “has precise information about their movements and the camps where these dissidents are located”, accusing it of managing drug trafficking routes from Venezuela and planning terrorist actions in their country.

In this sense, Guanipa confirmed that Maduro’s allies are “murderers who have committed the most heinous crimes in the region’s contemporary history.” “Nicolás Maduro has made Venezuela the cradle of terrorism, allowing these criminals to carry out all kinds of operations in our country,” he stressed. Faced with this situation, Guanipa believed that it is Venezuelans’ “obligation” to “save” their country. “But we are not only facing a dictatorship, we are also facing the organized crime Maduro is leading today with allies like this, so the support of the international community is fundamental,” he concluded.

It is no secret to international justice that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) had close relations with the Maduro regime in Venezuela before the peace accords in Havana. Luciano Marín Arango, aka ‘Iván Márquez’, Y Seuxis Paucis Hernández Solarte, aka Jesús Santrich, share, with visible leaders of the Venezuelan regime, an indictment issued by the court of the Southern District of New York.

But now, the government’s photo archive – collected by Venezuelan human sources – shows criminal leaders surrounded by security in Venezuelan territory near Colombia. According to the media, there are 36 structures that would gather 4,927 men to serve the dissidents, according to figures from mid-2020. Therefore, the power of Márquez, Gentil Duarte and their allies may have grown in more than six months. that have passed.

Its assets include high-end pickup trucks with Venezuelan license plates, a light aircraft, long guns, camps and a large deployment of personnel. According to the media, the aforementioned guerrillas would move across Venezuelan territory without any repercussion among civilians. He even added that Márquez lives in a condominium guarded by Nicolás Maduro’s men in the urban area of ​​the city of Elorza, a few kilometers from the Arauca department.

In the first picture you can see the staff accompanying the person who is said to be Jesús Santrich in a caravan. In the evidence, you can count up to ten people in military clothing who the media said would be there to protect the dissident who managed to escape the Colombian prison system. The black truck transports people near El Paisa who were heavily armed.

Another photo released by Semana shows the leader of the dissidents entering a truck with his signature sunglasses. At the moment he can be seen in the company of at least three uniformed men. The media claims that Santrich built the camps out of wood and that the areas are protected by plastic tents from sun and rain.

In addition, informants are found in the neighboring country a Cessna propeller plane in which not only the leaders are mobilized, but also loads of narcotics. According to the media, the dissidents’ planes have no restrictions in Venezuela’s airspace. The landings and take-offs would take place on at least ten clandestine runways, but Semana says the light aircraft is allowed to land on any airlift.

The Venezuelan source also recorded Romaña encounters with people dressed in civilian clothes, and there are even indications of a conversation with a Mexican boss allegedly negotiating the drug trade that supports the Second Marquetalia. The media emphasized, among other things, that the guerrilla leader was arriving.

In addition, it captured the moment when Romaña sat in front of a computer and an electronic device that cannot be detailed. Among others, there are lace-up boots that differ from the plastic boots they wore when they settled in the jungles of Colombia.

Members of the Second Marquetalia are even seen in an alleged staging on Venezuelan territory. In a large room you see four people – three men and a woman – with a calm appearance. In the photo there are two, a man is standing with a long gun and the woman is leaning on a table with a sound system. According to the media, the gunman is said to be the head of Romaña’s security.

Below the photos you can see the tent of one of the camps, which is still rudimentary, and with a construction of wooden materials and large cloths that protect the activities that take place inside.

Regarding the weapons, which, according to the Justice Department indictment, were partly supplied by the Maduro regime, an image has been recorded showing an alleged El Paisa escort with two long-range rifles in excellent condition. One is black and the other has a camouflaged pattern to be able to attack places with prominent vegetation. Dissidents have always distinguished themselves in their video interventions by having visible weapons that demonstrate the strength of the insurgent group.

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