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(CNN Spanish) - After the announcement of Iván Márquez, Romaña, Jesús Santrich and El Paisa of the creation of a new guerrilla in Colombia, the high commissioner for La Paz of Colombia, Miguel Ceballos, assured that the authorities “intuit” that this guerrilla group would be in Venezuela.
President Iván Duque said on Thursday that the country is facing "the criminal threats of a gang of narcoterrorists that has the shelter and support of the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro."
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Ceballos also said that these groups would be receiving support from the "dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro." The Venezuelan government has not ruled on these accusations. CNN is trying to get a reaction from the Venezuelan authorities.
Ceballos said that by announcing an alliance with the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group, the group of dissidents who take up arms show "strategic and military weakness."
The Colombian Government has long indicated that guerrillas receive support from Venezuela.
In July, at the closing of the Sao Paulo Forum held in Caracas, Nicolás Maduro, questioned president of Venezuela, said that former FARC commanders who are not fulfilling the commitment to reinstatement are welcome in Venezuela. In response, Colombian President Iván Duque said that with that statement Maduro not only shows that "it has been home to Colombian terrorists for many years, but once again ratifies that Venezuela is a sanctuary for terrorists and drug traffickers."
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For Venezuelan analyst and internationalist Giovanna de Michele, "the link between the Bolivarian revolution and the FARC is absolutely public and notorious." De Michele told CNN in Spanish that "the existence of a possible alliance that implies mutual support and support is not ruled out."
"The guerrillas requested by Colombian justice would find support in revolutionary Venezuela and the Government of Nicolás Maduro would guarantee the survival of the revolution through the FARC, even if the government lost in Venezuela," he concludes.
On July 29, a high-ranking military source within the Colombian Government and another related to the case of Jesús Santrich told CNN that he and alias Iván Márquez would be in Venezuela in contact with the ELN, which also operates in that country, to create another criminal and guerrilla structure. CNN could not confirm this information independently.
With information from Ana Melgar
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