Juan Guaido Entered Colombia With Help from Paramilitaries, Drug Cartels [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Juan Guaido pictured with known members of Colombian paramilitaries. | Photo: Twitter / @wilcan91

Published 12 September 2019 (5 hours 1 minutes ago)

The group is also involved in the drugs trade and was described by Insight Crime as “one of the most powerful transnational criminal syndicates in Colombia”


A Colombian human rights NGO has reported Thursday that a known paramilitary group, involved in the drugs trade, helped Juan Guaido cross the Venezuelan-Colombian border back in February so that he could attend Richard Branson’s “Venezuela Aid Live” concert in Cucuta.

Wilfredo Cañizares, director of the Fundación Progresar (a local human rights NGO), told local media that he has evidence that a right-wing paramilitary group, known as ‘Los Rastrojos’ played a key role in helping coordinate the entry of self-declared lawmaker Juan Guaido into Colombia on Feb. 23.

The group is also involved in the drugs trade and was described by Insight Crime as “one of the most powerful transnational criminal syndicates in Colombia” until their top leadership was captured in 2012. They are now considered to be a somewhat small operation.

Cañizares published photos on Twitter of Juan Guaido posing for a photo with Jhon Jairo Durán Contreras aka ‘El Menor’ and Albeiro Lobo Quintero aka ‘El Brother’. Both of whom have since been identified by police as known associates of the Rastrojos.

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