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Maduro Salutes Petro for Troop Deployment Near Venezuela's Border to Combat Narcoterrorist Gangs - teleSUR English

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro expressed gratitude on Thursday to his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro, for enhancing security in the Catatumbo region by deploying 25,000 military personnel to combat narcoterrorism along the Colombia-Venezuela border. RELATED: Venezuela and Dominica Reaffirm Regional Solidarity Amid Rising Security Concerns “I want to thank the president of Colombia, with whom we share one flag — yellow, blue, and red — …

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Bogotá. Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, announced yesterday the militarization of the border with Venezuela in the region of Catatumbo, and the deployment of 25,000 troops “to achieve the maximum reduction of mafia forces” and to combat drug trafficking, an action that his Venezuelan partner, Nicolás Maduro, thanked.

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The president of Colombia called for "militarization of the Catatumbo border in order to achieve the maximum reduction of mafia forces."

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By Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, ordered Thursday to strengthen the military presence in a part of his country's border with Venezuela as a measure to “reduce to the maximum the mafia forces.” The order implies that the Colombian Army increases the number of soldiers to fight the criminals in the region of Catatumbo, where there are currently 25,000 soldiers, Petro said in his X account. Catatumbo is l…

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By Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, ordered Thursday to strengthen the military presence in a part of his country's border with Venezuela as a measure to “reduce to the maximum the mafia forces.” The order implies that the Colombian Army increases the number of soldiers to fight the criminals in the region of Catatumbo, where there are currently 25,000 soldiers, Petro said in his X account. Catatumbo is l…

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Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, thanked Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, on Thursday for ordering an increase in the number of troops in the Catatumbo region, located on the border between the two countries, to confront, according to the Colombian, “the mafia forces.”

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El Economista broke the news in on Thursday, August 28, 2025.
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