More than 4000 Colombian guerrillas in Venezuela: Governor [View all]

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Some 4,000 Colombian guerrillas are camped in Venezuela, the governor of that country’s most southern state said Thursday.

Governor Liborio Guarulla of the Amazonas state told opposition television network Globovision that the guerrillas were initially pushed into his state’s territory to evade persecution by the Colombian government under President Alvaro Uribe, but have since settled and increasingly are involved in illegal mining and drug trafficking in the southern region.

“There are more than 4,000 troops of the guerrillas on Venezuelan territory,” said Guarulla, explaining that claim is based on rebel camps found in his state.

“The situation is quite serious, because initially they entered as refugees for the persecution by Uribe … Now they are involved in the mines and have been trying to indoctrinate indigenous peoples,” the governor explained.

“This is a violation of our sovereignty; the extraction of our minerals and all implied with drug trafficking,” said Guarulla.