Caracas Accuses Colombia of a "Bombing Campaign" After U.S. Military Visit
Caracas Accuses Colombia of a "Bombing Campaign" After U.S. Military Visit
Caracas on Monday accused Bogotá of leading a “bombing campaign,” or military efforts to invade Venezuela. "The regime is desperate to portray themselves as the victim," said Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of the Americas.
Caracas on Monday accused Bogotá of leading a “bombing campaign,” or military efforts to invade Venezuela, following a visit from U.S. Admiral Kurt Tidd, head of the U.S. Southern Command, to Colombia's coastal city of Tumaco last weekend.
“In Colombia, they are planning to revive eras that had ended in human history, like military bombing, a military invasion or the occupation, through blood and gunfire, of a peaceful country like Venezuela,” said Tarek William Saab, Venezuela’s chief prosecutor, according to the state-run AVN news agency. “We will not allow it.”
In an apparent reference to President Donald Trump’s comment last year that he would not rule out a “military option” to Venezuela’s crisis, Saab said during a speech in the state of Anzoategui, “What did the people of Venezuela do to deserve to be bombed, like the president of the United States threatened?”
