Venezuelan opponent accuses Maduro of handing over sovereignty to irregular groups

The opponent of Venezuela Eduardo Battistini, representative of former deputy Juan Guaidó in Colombia, denounced this Tuesday that the president Nicolas Maduro He has “handed over” the territorial sovereignty of his country to “irregular armed groups.”

“Nicolás Maduro has handed over our territorial sovereignty to irregular armed groups so that they can use it as a hideout, theater of operations, space for evasion of justice, as well as to organize acts of violence against the Colombian state,” Battistini wrote on his Twitter account .

The politician made this comment after a war broke out between dissidents from the FARC and the ELN guerrillas for territorial control in the Colombian department of Arauca, bordering the Venezuelan state of Apure, in which, so far, the death of 24 people.

In Battistini’s opinion, these events “show, once again, how the collusion and complicity of the Nicolás Maduro regime generates violence, death and displacement of the civilian population on the Colombian-Venezuelan border.”

“International law obliges states to cooperate with each other to prosecute criminal groups, as established in the Palermo Convention against Organized Crime. The Maduro regime is outside this convention, “he said.

According to his complaint, of which he did not provide evidence, “Maduro and his relationship with irregular armed groups are a danger to the region and its democratic stability.”

“They turned Venezuela into a failed state at the mercy of armed gangs that control drug trafficking, terrorism and illegal mining,” he concluded.