Iran, Russia aid Venezuela in moving troops to Colombian border

Jerusalem Post ^ | 2/3/22 | Reuters

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Venezuela is moving troops to the border with Colombia with technical assistance from Russia and Iran, Colombia's defense minister Diego Molano said on Thursday, calling the possible deployment "foreign interference."

Molano, citing intelligence sources, said troop movements were registered in Venezuela opposite Colombia's Arauca province, the scene of fierce fighting between guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and FARC dissidents for control of the drugs trade.

[rrrod]

The Russians and Iranians need to be tortured.

[Waverunner]

Too bad the history taught to the white house staff, handlers of Biden, and members of the state bureaucracy ( let's not use deep state, let's call them what they are).
There was this thing called the Monroe Doctrine designed to stop things like this. oops, another old white guy president, my mistake.
Unrelated, but one of my favorite Monroe quotes.

[Rappini]

I have a funny feeling that I should be making more ammo.

[piasa]

bump

[piasa]

1983 : (COLUMBIA : ) FARC’s war on America dates back to 1983 when the Marxist terror group took its first American hostage.

1996 : (COLUMBIA : ) Frank Pescatore, a geologist, was kidnapped and murdered by FARC in 1996. The Marxist terrorists packed his body with lime and formaldehyde and tried to pretend that he was still alive in the hopes of collecting a ransom for him.

1999 spring : (COLUMBIA : ) “Take them across the river and burn them.” That was how the lives of three left-wing American environmental activists had ended in the spring of 1999. Their killers were members of the FARC Marxist terror group. The victims were shot in the face after being tortured.

2008 :(THAILAND : Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout , Merchant of Death, is arrested — see Liberia’s Charles Taylor, Columbian narcoterrorists FARC)

2015 : (WASHINGTON, DC : -— see COLUMBIA) Obama administration says that it would not seek the extradition of FARC terrorists.

2016 : (COLUMBIA : FARC — see Obama, Biden Admin) Marxist rebels, formally known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and the Colombian government signed a historic peace accord.

NOVEMBER 2021 : (WASHINGTON DC : Biden Admin announces plan to remove Columbian terrorist group FARC from list of foreign terrorist organizations — see COLUMBIA ) The Biden administration’s plan to remove a Colombian rebel group from a list of foreign terrorist organizations barely caused a ripple outside Washington when the news broke this week.

FEBRUARY 2022 : (RUSSIA, IRAN meddling against COLUMBIA -— see FARC)

AUGUST 2022 : (COLUMBIA : Former M-19 guerilla Gustavo Petro is sworn in as president -— see son Nicolas Petro, drugs,narcoterrorism)

[McGruff]

Maybe the Russians are looking for a base to setup “defensive” nuclear weapons.

[piasa]

1990s mid : (Venezuela : Cartel of the Suns, “a loose federation of government officials” runs a drug trade operation ) ...Cartel of the Suns
Since the mid-90s, the Cartel of the Suns has been operating a drug trade inside Venezuela. Despite its name, the ‘Cartel de los Soles’ is no cartel in the traditional sense. Vigil describes the organization as a “loose federation of government officials and military officers in Venezuela.”
According to Vigil, they evolved into a criminal organization that moves “tons of cocaine” to Europe and the United States through the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico.
At first, Vigil explained, the Cartel of the Suns were content with just taking bribes from Colombian drug trafficking organizations and “subversive organizations” like the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC).”

[piasa]

Cartel of the Suns is allied with Tren we Aragua

[piasa]

September 2024 : () Maduro reacted to the killing of Hezbollah’s veteran leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during an Israeli airstrike on Friday in Beirut.

“I want to express, on behalf of the historic revolutionary bloc and the Bolivarian forces of Venezuela, our solidarity with Hezbollah, with his family, and with the people of Lebanon, and to condemn this crime,” Maduro said in Spanish. “And the attack was ordered from the United Nations headquarters in New York, and the cowards of the world remain silent, but the rebellious people will not be silenced.”

Good info here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-member-venezuelan-national-assembly-charged-narco-terrorism-drug-trafficking-and

[piasa]

March 2020 : (Indictments against Venezuela’s Maduro regime, including changes against Maduro -— see Cartel of the Suns/Cártel de Los Soles) This approach led to a March 2020 US Department of Justice (DOJ) announcement of multiple narcoterrorism indictments against the Maduro regime, including charges against Nicolás Maduro himself.1 Two months later, the DOJ indicted a former member of Venezuela’s National Assembly, the Syrian-Venezuelan dual national Adel El Zebayar, for allegedly working with Maduro and several top regime leaders in Venezuela on a narcoterrorism conspiracy that involved dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), drug cartels in Mexico, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Syria, and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.2

[bert]

Russia is incapable of accomplishing anything significant beyond a publicity release

Iran is incapable of anything beyond stirring up the weakest of Venezuelan terrorist surrogates to appear to be still in the game