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Security & Strategic Review - June 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
VENEZUELA-COLOMBIA: Of threats and conspiracies
On 10 June news agencies and media outlets in Venezuela quoted the Fuerzas Bolivarianas de Liberación (FBL) as having announced ‘the preparation and immediate execution of an admirable offensive against all the interests of the bourgeoisie and the transnational companies that promote and support foreign interference and intervention; consequently all of their spokesmen, representatives and agents become a military objective.’ This came after official announcements that a plot to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro had been thwarted and another, involving the purchase of warplanes and the use of a US base in Colombia, had been uncovered.
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- POINTERS
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- MEXICO: New pattern of criminality emerges
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- PARAGUAY: Cartes deploys the military against the EPP
- POINTERS
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- EL SALVADOR: Reacting to the gaps in the gang truce
- POINTERS
- Debate on drug policy is left for later