BOGOTA: Colombian left-wing guerrillas operating on the border with Venezuela vowed Sunday to resist Washington’s “imperial plans” following the US ouster of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
The powerful National Liberation Army (ELN), which controls cocaine trafficking routes along Colombia’s border with Venezuela, called on “all patriots” to “confront the imperial plans against Venezuela and the peoples of the Global South.”
Security experts say the ELN also has rear bases within Venezuela that were tolerated by Maduro.
Dissident members of the defunct FARC rebel army, who vie with the ELN for control of drug-producing regions near Venezuela, also vowed resistance to Trump.
Writing on X, they said they were prepared to spend their “last drop of blood fighting the US empire.”
