The Colombian government activated this Saturday a three-axis strategy, including a diplomatic and humanitarian aid strategy, in response to the US imperialist military attack on Caracas and other cities of Venezuela.

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Faced with this, we maintain three strategic lines. The first of these is diplomacy, which is the responsibility of the President of the Republic (Gustavo Petro) as head of state, said the Minister of Defense, Pedro Sánchez, in a statement after participating in an extraordinary security council.

The second axis, added the senior official, is humanitarian assistance in the face of the expected increase in migration flows from Colombia to Venezuela, caused by the celebration of Christmas and the New Year.

Faced with this line, the Ministry of the Interior and the Dapre (Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic) will lead the Government’s strategy to provide humanitarian assistance as required, Sánchez explained.

The last axis is that of security, which will be led by the head of the Defense portfolio and aims to have “maximum forcefulness” against the guerrilla of the National Liberation Army (ELN), which dominates the Colombian-Venezuelan border.

The two countries share a 2,219-kilometer land border that stretches from the Caribbean to the Amazon and whose main border crossings are between the Colombian city of Cúcuta and San Antonio del Táchira and Ureña, in the Venezuelan state of Táchira.

Just on Saturday, Petro announced a reinforcement of security on the border with Venezuela to attend to a possible massive arrival of refugees from that country after the attack.

The public force is being deployed on the border, all the assistance force that we have available is being deployed in case of a massive entry of refugees, Petro said in a message on his X account, in which he added that he was following the events in Venezuela in a security council during the early morning.

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