Venezuela’s border dawned taken by FF. MM. of the Maduro regime: why?

Venezuela has closed transit through its border due to the military exercises carried out by the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), as confirmed this Wednesday by official sources from Brazil.

According to police spokespersons in the Brazilian state of RoraimaVenezuela reported that this is a “security measure” by virtue of these maneuvers and that the closure of the border crossing through the city of Pacaraima, in Brazil, will remain in place at least until this Thursday, January 23, 2025.

Pacaraima is located on Venezuela’s southern border with Brazil and since 2018 it has been the gateway for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan citizens who have left their country due to the acute political, economic and social crisis.

The border was also closed on January 10, when Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as president for a third term after his questioned re-electiondenounced as fraudulent by the opposition.

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On that occasion, transit across the border with Brazil remained interrupted for three days.

The military maneuvers taking place this Wednesday, January 22, have mobilized some 150,000 members of the FANB throughout Venezuelan territory, as reported by the organization itself.

Last Monday, the Venezuelan Defense Minister, Vladimir Padrino, stated that the objective of these exercises is to be “ready and ready to make the homeland impregnable” against what he defined as “internal and external enemies.”

Maduro reiterates his willingness to help Colombia to end the armed conflict

Nicolás Maduro, who was sworn in as president for a third term after his disputed re-election, reiterated this Wednesday his willingness to help Colombia to end the armed conflict, which has been going on for a week, between the guerrilla of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and a FARC dissident in the Catatumbo region.

“This conflict has to come to an end someday, someday Colombia will build its paths of peace and we will help with our Bolivarian love in Bolívar and for Bolívar, always helping Colombia and supporting it with great solidarity,” he said in a televised event.

Maduro pointed out that more than 2,000 soldiers are in “that entire conflict area”on the Venezuelan side, with “all its operational and observation capacity, guaranteeing on the Venezuelan side” “peace, stability, tranquility.”

“That is why we are in a position to support, many actions have been coordinated with the military authorities on the Colombian side (…) we must continue coordination with our sister Colombia,” added the president without offering further details about these plans.

This Wednesday, the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office decided to reactivate the arrest warrants against the ELN peace negotiators after the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, ordered the suspension of the dialogues due to the “war crimes” that this guerrilla is committing in the Catatumbo.

“Failure to comply with the conditions for the suspension of arrest warrants and, in particular, the commission of new crimes by members of the ELN, gives rise to reactivating the arrest warrants suspended at the time at the request of the president,” it states. a resolution issued by the attorney general, Luz Adriana Camargo.

The ombudsman, Iris Marín, pointed out on Tuesday that the number of displaced people after six days of offensive rose to 32,000, with half of them in Cúcuta, the capital of the department of Norte de Santander, to which Catatumbo belongs, an area that It also shares a border with Venezuela.

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Since the ELN began attacks against the 33rd Front of the FARC dissidents, some 80 people have been murdered in Catatumbo, according to figures from the Norte de Santander Government, including at least six signatories of the 2016 peace agreement. .

On Sunday, the Venezuelan Ministry of the Interior reported that the authorities have assisted a total of 812 displaced Colombians, after the Chavista Administration activated a humanitarian assistance plan in four points in the states of Zulia and Táchira (west).

“Among those assisted are 352 men, 258 women and 202 children in the humanitarian corridors at kilometer 16 points, Rural Command Detachment 11-1 ‘Mi Ranchito’, Puente Ecuador and the Esmirda de Muñoz School, support centers that receive to those affected,” he explained in a post on Instagram.