As you will remember, the above mentioned closing was decreed by president Nicolás Maduro immediately after the attack to a patrol by paramilitary elements, with the balance of two bolivarian soldiers hurt, and the worsening of the smuggler activity causative of serious damages to the supplying of first need articles to the population and important link in the economic war.

The control in the frontier on the part of the Caracas authorities, and the effort for establishing the order and the legality to fight the paramilitary ones in this area motivated the exit of hundreds of Colombians who were residing ilegally in bolivarian territory, situation catalogued by the president Juan Manuel Santos like a human rights violation in the course of an incendiary speech, without any valid justification, and without mentioning that the exodus of his fellow citizens owes to the precarious economic conditions and safety that they endure in their ground.

In the above mentioned speech Santos was as far as to affirm “that the Venezuelan revolution is self-destructing”, disrespectful declaration that the bolivarian Government entrusted to refute and that in nothing contributes to the establishment of a serious dialogue, in spite of the meetings celebrated between the chancellors of both countries.

Now, the Colombian Minister of Defense denounces that Venezuelan military planes violated the national air space on having penetrated over 2 kilometers in the territory, in what looks like a new attempt of keep on warming the common border to support the tension state between the two nations, with clear destabilizing target.

For his part, president Maduro affirmed that such a supposed violation is only an invention of the Colombian authorities who try with it to discredit and to obstruct the negotiations of the regional organisms Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) for the sake of achieving a bilateral dialogue between the chiefs of both countries to reach beneficial decisions for the two peoples, whose friendly tradition is long.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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