After the victory of Iván Duque, candidate of Uribismo in the past presidential elections of Colombia, intelligence reports have detected the mobilization of Colombian military forces on the border with Venezuela, which has awakened the alert of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), said the journalist and former minister for Defense, José Vicente Rangel.
In his «José Vicente Hoy» (José Vicente Today) program, broadcast on Sunday by Televen, he said that infantry and armored units have mobilized strongly in the area, particularly on the border with Zulia, Táchira and Apure states.
After the triumph of Duque: «There has been an intense mobilization of the Colombian army on the border with Venezuela, several infantry and armored units have been mobilized with force in the area, as well as activities in the North American bases near the north of Venezuela», he said.
In his television program, Rangel had also warned last July 1 that intelligence reports indicated that a plan is underway for the reactivation of paramilitary units along the Colombian-Venezuelan border:
«The policies of Uribismo, that is to say, the right-wing tendency that follows the former president of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez, against whom there are serious charges for drug trafficking incidents and violations of Human Rights, has caught a second wind with the election of his pupil, Iván Duque. His triumph presages a resurgence of opposition from the Colombian Government against Venezuela», he said on that occasion.
Media manipulation:
This Sunday, Rangel revealed that sectors of the Venezuelan opposition are working together with private media in order to make a negative campaign on the situation of the national economy, a victim since 2013 of maneuvers such as induced inflation and attacks on the currency: «In the coming days there will be a media display to highlight the data of the economic situation such as hyperinflation and the deterioration of wages», warned the journalist.
