Colombians Denounce Plans to Invade Venezuela

 In light of the escalation of tension on the Colombian-Venezuelan border, analysts and political leaders in this capital have warned about the preparation of a military invasion of Venezuela under the disguise of humanitarian aid.

According to the general secretary of the Communist Party of Colombia, Jaime Caycedo, the United States seeks to invade Venezuela and it wants to do so from Colombia.

What they call humanitarian aid really comes from US military bases in the Caribbean and it is the justification for a military intervention, Caycedo warned on Twitter.

On that same line, the Colombian analyst Oscar Hernando Avellaneda told Prensa Latina that an incident on the Colombian-Venezuelan border is being sought to justify a fratricidal war.

With that purpose, he added, a 'humanitarian aid' that has never been offered to the residents of El Choco or La Guajira, in Colombia, who are affected by high levels of malnutrition, has been sent there in order to force the Venezuelan constitutional Government of President Nicolas Maduro to receive it.

The Colombian columnist noted that even the Red Cross has denied that the alleged supplies from Washington to Venezuela constitute humanitarian aid.

About the announced 'humanitarian' concert scheduled for Friday in the border city of Cucuta, Avellaneda said, 'It has been organized to raise 100 million dollars, while simultaneously, the US government steals more than 23 billion dollars from Venezuela.'

Avellaneda, who also works as a pediatrician, noted that Colombian society must reject any forms of participation in an unjust war that would cause pain, suffering and deaths on either side of the border.

For her part, Colombia's former vice presidential candidate and congresswoman, Angela Maria Robledo, urged not to lend a single centimeter of Colombia to invade Venezuela.

'The bombs will not fall in the United States; it would be in our cities,' the representative of the Colombia Humana movement stressed.

On Tuesday, former Colombian President Ernesto Samper (1994-1998) noted that behind the alleged humanitarian aid for Venezuela, a military intervention might be organized.

I think that behind the humanitarian support, a form of legitimization of a military intervention might be organized, Samper said in an interview with Alfredo Serrano, director of the Latin American Geopolitics Strategic Center.

Last week, some 700 intellectuals, congress people and representatives of farmers, indigenous, students, union, women and human rights organizations asked Colombian President Ivan Duque to cut himself off from a military option against Venezuela.

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