Duque urges US to designate Venezuela a state sponsor of terrorism 2 minutes read
Bogota, Jul 26 (EFE).- Colombia’s president on Monday called on the United States to designate Venezuela a state sponsor of terrorism, saying that leftist-led country is harboring guerrillas who have claimed responsibility for recent attacks on a military base and the presidential helicopter.
“Clearly that tacit consent on the part of Venezuela’s dictatorial regime warrants its being declared by the United States as a state sponsor of terrorism,” Ivan Duque said at a conference in Bogota focused on analyzing and preventing urban terrorism that was attended by US Ambassador to Colombia Philip Goldberg.
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Colombia accuses former Venezuelan-based FARC soldiers and dissidents of attacking Duque – 22/07/2021 – world
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Colombian authorities said on Thursday (22) that the attack on the helicopter in which President Iván Duque was in late June was planned from Venezuela by a former Colombian soldier and dissidents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). .
The presidential plane was shot several times as it approached an airport in the city of Cúcuta, on the Venezuelan border, during a visit following a car bomb attack on a military installation of the region. The president and his companions are unharmed.
In a statement, Defense Minister Diego Molano announced that three defendants had been arrested. One of them is Andrés Fernando Medina, a retired Colombian army captain who allegedly conceived and executed the plan against Duque, according to Attorney General Francisco Barbosa.
Colombia Arrests 10 Over Attacks on Duque’s Helicopter, Military Base
BOGOTA Colombia has arrested 10 people accused of involvement in attacks on a helicopter carrying President Ivan Duque and a military base last month that officials said on Thursday were planned by former FARC terrorist leaders based in Venezuela.
The car bombing at the base in the northeastern city of Cucuta, home to the army’s 30th Brigade, wounded 44 people, including two U.S. military advisers. Later in June, a helicopter approaching the city with Duque and other officials aboard was strafed by bullets.
The 10 people captured in Norte de Santander province are former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terrorists who reject a 2016 peace deal, Attorney General Francisco Barbosa said in a news conference broadcast via social media, and belong to the dissidents’ 33rd front.