Colombia denounces plans to attack Ivan Duque

Bogota accuses the Venezuelan authorities of preparing for several months an attack against President Ivan Duque. Relations between the two countries are tense because of the mass exodus of Venezuelans to Colombia.

Colombian authorities on Saturday (December 29th) accused Venezuelan authorities of wanting to attack the life of President Ivan Duque. Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo explained that "for several months we have been investigating possible attacks against the president". In recent days, three Venezuelan nationals have been arrested: on 21 December in Valledupar, José Vicente Gomez, 22, from San Felipe and Pedro José Acosta, 22, from Ojeda, were intercepted on board a public bus while they were in possession of two Tactical Machining 5.56-caliber rifles, three magazines and a rifle scope. The third was arrested December 26 in Baranquilla in possession of a mini Uzi 9 millimeters.