Diosdado Cabello, current Minister of the Interior and justice of Venezuela, issued statements in a program broadcast on state television, after President Gustavo Petro publicly assured that alias ‘Chiquito Malo’, leader of the Gulf clan, would have completed an alliance with members of the national Liberation Army (ELN) in Venezuelan territory.
The Colombian head of state expressed his statement through a publication in his X account, in which he said: “’Chiquito Malo’ has decided an alliance with the ELN, on the Venezuelan side, 32 tons of cocaine of the Catatumbo have already been seized, and detained several mayors and politicians who helped the narco”.
Petro’s words generated a direct hair reaction, who is considered one of the most influential figures of the Government of Nicolás Maduro. during his speech, he questioned that Venezuela be involved in internal security issues in Colombia.
“In Venezuela we are giving, Mr. Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia, with all due respect, a frontal battle against all drug trafficking mafias, paramilitarism, terrorism. Why do you have to justify that you will change your boss of port and then talk that in Venezuela?” The official said.
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In his speech, Cabello insisted that it does not correspond to the Colombian president to attribute responsibilities outside the national territory and emphasized that his country has taken operational actions to combat organized crime.
-“Why does the president of Colombia have to mess with Venezuela? Are we enemies? The problem is where the drug occurs. Venezuela has deployed more than 5,000 members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces throughout the territory,” he said.
In addition to rejecting Petro’s statements, the Venezuelan leader took the opportunity to point out that the Colombian authorities would not effectively respond to shared information about members of the criminal group of Aragua.
“You have to be prudence in those things. Prudence. We have given them information and have not stopped. We gave them the information where the bosses left in Colombia of the Aragua train were. Sixteen were in a place. One only grabbed. The others managed to leave,” hair said during their pronouncement.
The official ended his intervention with a more direct criticism of power structures in Colombia, and stressed that, according to his position, the problems of complicity with drug trafficking have no origin in Venezuelan territory.
“There is no complicity here. That is there. That is there, see that then the power, the power of parapolitics can more than the power of justice,” he concluded.
The crossing of statements occurs in the middle of a context of tensions related to criminal operations in border areas and the indication of alleged links between Colombian armed groups and organizations in Venezuela. The statements of both sides reflect a distance in bilateral safety cooperation.
