Colombia says increasing number of Venezuelans involved in ELN attacks

Reuters ^ | 15 February 2018 | Luis Jaime Acosta; Writing by Helen Murphy, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien

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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia on Thursday said an increasing number of Venezuelans were taking part in attacks by Marxist ELN rebels and in criminal activity, as hundreds of thousands of migrants flee over the border to escape a humanitarian crisis at home. {snip}Villegas said Venezuelans had collaborated with the National Liberation Army (ELN) in attacks in Colombia and been involved in killings and robberies. {snip}Villegas said intelligence agents in Colombia had found that an attack by the ELN in late January, which killed six police officers and injured 40, was planned in Venezuela. He also said that two Venezuelan members of the ELN died over the weekend, when a device intended to destroy a section of highway exploded.

[blueplum]

this is why we can't have nice things - refugees tend to bring their lifestyle with them and without controls on who enters and when, chaos surely follows.

[rrrod]

I’m here in Colombia...Santos was all over the T.V. last nite..whining about the terrorist. He’s the one that gave them amnesty...he is the one that let them have a say in government..he is the one that went against the voters. Heis the toast of the EU...and Obama.
The guy is hated here.

[Mr Radical]

hundreds of thousands of migrants flee over the border

Clearly, they need a wall.

[iontheball]

Disgusting socialist basket cases (Columbia/Venezuela) solely caused by systemic rank corruption. Oil rich Venezuela can’t take care of its own people. There is no news story that bores down and addresses the real cause. The people need to rise up, but they are purposefully keep destitute and ignorant. Does it do any good to help when the problem keeps repeating itself?

[kearnyirish2]

Most importantly, the people are DISARMED.

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the only way to help them is kinda like tough love. American colonists were kept ignorant and oppressed and largely unarmed by the occupying forces of the King. We still rose up and it took us a while but we did manage to kick him out and banish his supporters to Kentuck ;).