In a distant corner of Colombia in the northeast, farmers and their families caused by the water hills covered with banana trees, became the victims of violence in a generation.
As two rebel groups are battles for the area, More than 54,000 people They fled their homes and died with the number of deaths expected to death with about 80 people.
The root of this conflict has fights for decades over the land and drug money and Fail for past deals to cause persistent peace. However, analysts, diplomats and even the president of Colombia Gustavo Petro, another, the new factor in the other, Colombia: neighboring Venezuela.
Over the past decade, there is a government, as Venezuela fell into autocracy closely The existing struggle, the next door of the next conflict, a long-lasting group called the National Salvation Army or Eln.
In the 1960s, ENN, born in Santander, a Marxist group, moving in shelter and other illegal activities, increasing ties with Venezuelan officials, increasing three times to about 6,000 warriors.
In return, the Colombian government has benefited from having a strong armed group, as an opportunity for autocratic president Nicolás Maduro, including more isolated country on the global stage, including internal and foreign threats.
For years, the collapse of Venezuela's democracy, sending three million refugees and put a tension in neighboring Colombia run to the nation only 50 million.
Now they say Mr. Maduron's Venezuela is used as a base to reveal something more stabilized: a new destruction wave in Colombia.
Mr. Petro went up to ELN in the character Become a “external force” that occupies Colombia. “This is the problem of national sovereignty,” he said, “It's not just the internal conflict we have ever done since today.”
Venezuela's Defense Minter, Vladimir Padrino López, in a comment In late January, “For Venezuelan, no platform, not to serve and do not serve, such as no platform, it was” crystal clarity “to serve.
Why is the legal security to prepare, the relationship between Mr. Petro and Mr Maduro is acidified in the last few months.
Mr. Petro is a natural ally of Colombia's first leftist president, former partisan, and Mr. Maduron, who called himself a socialist. Two years ago, they held a High-profile meeting In Garajas, both people promise issues of mutual interest together.
This covers the security of the shared border within 1,300 miles.
Then Mr. Maduro in July declared himself the winner The TALL refused to envy him for a long time to support this claim, supporting this claim and arrest about 2,000 people in a wave of protest.
The United Nations and other independent monitors have questioned the result. The United States has recognized the opposition candidate as a winner.
Soon, Mr. Petro, Mr. Petro, Mr. Petro, Mr. Petro, Mr. Maduro, called for a more critical tone, called him to release the election results and releasing the election results. Mr. Maduro replied by ordering “punch“Everyone involved in the work of Venezuelan.
When Mr. Maduron swear by the third term on January 10, Mr. Petro rejected Participate in the ceremony or recognize Venezuelan as President.
Five days later, Eln sent fighters from the southern point of Colombia to the southern point of Colombia, to a strategically important region of Catatumbo, About x An armed group called 33rd front of the front group Oust.
Two groups, divided into the region for a long time, the large areas of Coca, cocaine base product. Now a fragile power sharing is broken.
While violence has made Mr. Petro's chances of Mr. Petro, Mr. Petro's chances of Mr. Petro, the main part of a claimed campaign – “General Peace” – the whole conflict ended in Colombia.
Targeted violence against hundreds of thousands of people in the country.
“The total peace was already in a bad place,” said Kyle Johnson, a non-profit investigation team in Bogota, the founder of the foundation clashes. “With this happening of violence, it feels politically as the last nail in coffins.”
Today, tens of thousands of civilians are trapped in the middle of the violence. Some families in Catatumbo took refuge in the forest and survived those who managed to carry them with them.
Others flocked to Tibru, a small town of Colombia, lying in a school that became a school, turned into a school. Others were full of a Coliseum in Cúcuta, Cúcuta, the main city of the region for each morning and assistance.
In the school in the last day, classrooms turned into a bedroom, and children played, a young woman, a feeling was eliminated, cried and cried until a patio.
“Sprinkle you dream”, read a mural on a wall. Military helicopters have overlaid.
Venezuela's strong interior Minister Diosdado Cabello visited the border, moved to fight the new wave of Colombian troops.
Solar set, Luz, 45 and husband Francisco, 40, 40 years old, as they left at the door of one of the house they left at the door of the house where they left the house: dirty floor, a barrel to collect trees
A few days ago, a man came to the school where he was working on Francisco and said he had five minutes.
Couples and their two sons fled.
Times just publishes only the first names of concern for their safety.
He struggled to understand how they won the earth there in Tibru.
“We all say citizens: Why do they fight?” said. “What are they looking for? What is the reason for this?”
For the Colombian army, the Regional Mario Commander General Mario said Mario Concern, Violence, violence, the violence began with the killing of a family. The next day, he was armed with pistols and dressed as a civilian, “because they knew that people are unprotected people are unprotected, and entered those who wanted the suspicious employees of the 33rd.
Before a generation, Eln was so weak, it was so weak, not, the state of Colombia and the parachysis. One Recent academic paperThe two researchers claimed Jorge Mantilla and Andreas Feldmann, the support of the support of neighboring Venezuela “rebels” incredible revival “.
Bram Ebus, a consultant for the International Crisis Group, said that the Venezuelan government has used the power of electricity in recent years. “We know that Venezuela has a tacit union at the federal level,” he said.
The Colombian army said that the first attacks of Eln fighters passed through Venezuela to take the stage. In A message in XThe group signed by the ELL Central Command, this group called this “fake news” invented by the Colombian government.
The group directed his wrath to the Colombian government, which is “destroyed” with “destruction”, accused of connecting with the 33rd front.
The 33rd front is the fraction of FARC, which is left in the Revolutionary Armed Forces or Weapon Despite the peace deal in 2016 Signed by the FARC and the Colombian government.
In late January, Colombian Defense Minister visited Venezuela to meet with his Venezuelan counterpart and then said the two discussed “collaboration“When it contains Eln leaders and group.
As violence opened in recent days, something careful in the Tarra River, Colombia and Venezuela, took place in the Tarra River. For many years, the Venezuela spilled the sanctuary in Colombia. Now the stream was going to the opposite.
In a passage, a Makechift ferry to Venezuela, which is about 3,000 people in the first three days of the battles.
42 was one of them. Wear a red skirt decorated with a blouse of buttons and blue – more suitable for the church than a run – his son, 7 and daughter, 17 year old.
He said that the jacket once was spread through violence. Although he was Colombian, he was still thinking of being good in Venezuela.
“It's really nice there.” “There is no war.”
Genevieve Glatsky Information provided by Bogota.