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COLOMBIAN President Juan Manuel Santos announced that more than 2,000 extra troops are to patrol his country’s border with Venezuela, supposedly because a refugee influx is looming.
Speaking in the border city of Cucuta, he said consumer shortages in the neighbouring country — which Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro blames on US-directed economic warfare — were prompting a stream of illegal immigrants.
“Colombia has never experienced a situation like the one we are encountering today,” Mr Santos said.
The disputed election of a far-right president, who is also a US citizen, signals further consolidation of Washington’s regional power and represents a threat to the country’s democracy and sovereignty, writes WT WHITNEY JNR
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
