Venezuela and Colombia, two long-time enemies, establish military relations.
The Minister of Defense of Venezuela has announced that he plans to re-establish military relations with his neighbor Colombia, who have been enemies for several years.
Venezuela’s Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino announced yesterday (Tuesday) the decision to establish friendly relations with the country’s long-time enemy, Colombia, and said that Venezuela is seeking to re-establish military relations with its neighbor Colombia.
Reuters news agency wrote in this regard, after years of conflict between Colombia and Venezuela, the defense minister of Caracas said that his country intends to re-establish military relations with its neighbor Colombia.
According to the report, Padrino said he received instructions from Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to contact Colomba’s Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez to “reestablish military relations.”
According to the Twitter account of the Venezuelan Ministry of Defense, Caracas is seeking to re-establish military relations with Colombia. Colombia’s defense ministry did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment on the news.
According to the report, after Caracas completely severed ties with Colombia in 2019 over a US-backed Venezuelan opposition effort to divert humanitarian aid from Colombia to Venezuela, which Caracas saw as the Bogota invasion, it is now The two countries are in the process of restoring diplomatic relations.
According to a Reuters report, a 2021 audit by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) found that the Trump administration’s aid efforts were not planned in line with humanitarian principles.
On July 28, the new governments of Colombia and Venezuela announced that after years of no diplomatic relations, they would appoint ambassadors to the two capitals and work to strengthen security along their shared border.