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Judi Lynn

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Mon Sep 16, 2019, 09:40 PM Sep 2019

Guaido's trip to Colombia impossible without prior agreement with narcos: report


by Adriaan Alsema September 16, 2019

The trip of Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido to Colombia in February was only possible with the prior approval of drug traffickers, according to public television network Canal Uno.

For hours, Colombian authorities did not know how to talk their way out of the scandal caused by the images of Guaido posing with leaders of drug trafficking organization “Los Rastrojos” at some seven kilometers from the border.

The White House and the US embassy in Bogota have not said anything about the narcos that were involved in the operation to force trucks laden with American aid through the border.

Patriotic narcos
Noticias Uno revealed that the images with “Brother” and “El Menor” were taken in an area known as Guaramito in Venezuela. From there, Guaido got into the narco’s Toyota and the three drove to the border bridge at the village of Agua Clara, a major drug trafficking route controlled by the Rastrojos.

At the bridge, Guaido was received by, among others, two of President Ivan Duque‘s bodyguards and local Conservative Party politician, Juan Felipe Corzo.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/guaidos-trip-to-colombia-impossible-without-prior-agreement-with-narcos-report/

Business as usual. Before they went through the farce of the "demobilization," these people were the death squad narco-trafficking paramilitaries known as the A.U.C.
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