Colombia says a Venezuelan Army unmanned aircraft violated its airspace and Venezuela responds

The Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported on Sunday that the previous day an unmanned aircraft of the Venezuelan Army violated its airspace. It is a Russian-made Orlan-10, which “entered the southern course of the Arauca River, which serves as the boundary between the two countries, in the vicinity of the municipality of Arauquita.” reza a statement.

The Colombian Foreign Ministry stressed that it “strongly rejects this new act of violation of national sovereignty and the repeated provocations by the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro” and assured that the country “will remain faithful to its tradition of affection, brotherhood, solidarity and respect for Venezuela “, but will continue” to inform the international community about these acts that violate international law. “

For his part, Vladimir Padrino López, Minister of People’s Power for the Defense of Venezuela, declared in his Twitter account that Caracas “has a hard time taking seriously the common thread that describes the Colombian warlike narrative” to, according to him, “muddy” the dialogue between the government and the opposition in Mexico. “It suggests that the neighboring intelligence superorganisms went from guarding the production and trafficking of narcotics to consumption,” he added.

The high official joked that his country will not be surprised if in “the next installment” Bogotá turns to “alien files of UFOs, plotted with Venezuela, to justify the ‘Star Wars’ and thus validate the North American intervention to ‘save the world'”. “Be serious! They are looking very bad,” he concluded.