Two members of the Tancol groups were killed, and five of them arrested, this Friday in the Venezuelan city of Santa Lucía, after a confrontation with agents of the Bolivarian National Guard who managed to discover the area where the subjects were hiding.
The two dead militiamen were of Colombian origin and belonged to the band “Los Botas Negras”.«. The group of guerrillas was engaged in the smuggling of vaccines, theft of vehicles, as well as extortion and executing assassination orders, according to Globovision on Saturday..
The five detainees have been brought to justice in Venezuela. They will be tried for resistance to authority, crime of damage, illegal possession of weapons and drug trafficking.
Venezuelan reinforcement against the militias
The Venezuelan authorities ordered this Monday the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) to reinforce its deployment in the country in the face of the escalation of violence due to clashes between guerrillas from Colombia, more specifically in the Colombian department of Arauca.
In this way, the head of the Strategic Operational Command of the Venezuelan Army, Domingo Hernández, pointed out on social networks that by order of Nicolás Maduro Venezuela seeks to confront the Tancol groups – an acronym used by the Venezuelan authorities to refer to Colombian drug-trafficking terrorists. .
«The FANB will fight against the Tancol groups in any of its forms. Call them what they’re called! Independence or nothing!” Hernández asserted on his Twitter profile. Along the same lines, he also pointed out that the Army, “in perfect civic-military union,” will maintain the country as “a territory of peace.”