newshttps://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-armed-forces-bomb-eln-guerrilla-camp-reports/
The operation allegedly relied on US intelligence support, with open-access flight radar confirming the presence of US reconnaissance aircraft in Venezuelan territory.
The Venezuelan armed forces reportedly attacked a camp belonging to Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) in the Pedro Camejo municipality, Apure State, on Friday.
The military operation relied on US intelligence support, according to Stratfor-owned geopolitical and intelligence platform RANE Worldview.
The interior minister additionally rejected any foreign interference in Venezuelan affairs. However, open-access flight radar confirmed the presence of US military assets in Venezuelan territory in recent days, including reconnaissance planes spotted flying over border areas.
Since the January 3 US attack and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, senior US military brass have visited the Caribbean country, including Southern Command Commander General Francis Donovan and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine.
In June, US forces conducted an airstrike in Bolívar State that they claimed to have extrajudicially executed Héctor “Niño” Guerrero, an alleged leader of the Tren de Aragua gang. Washington thanked Caracas for “cooperation,” while the Venezuelan government issued a statement informing of a “joint operation.”
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Caracas, November 2, 2026 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan armed forces reportedly attacked a camp belonging to Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) in the Pedro Camejo municipality, Apure State, on Friday.
The military operation relied on US intelligence support, according to Stratfor-owned geopolitical and intelligence platform RANE Worldview.
Local NGO Fundaredes stated the operation involved drones and combat helicopters and left 19 people killed, 10 of whom were identified by the forensic police in the state capital, San Fernando.
Fundaredes’ Apure director Javier García alleged that the ELN uses the area as a drug storage and logistics point. Right-wing news portal Infobae claimed that the attack also targeted camouflaged drug-transporting aircraft belonging to the ELN.
On Sunday, Fundaredes reported “armed clashes” which included drones in the Cedeño municipality of Bolívar State, close to the operations of state-owned bauxite mining and processing company BAUXILUM. According to Fundaredes, local miners were forced to leave the area and operations were temporarily suspended. However, the NGO did not identify who conducted the attacks.
The Venezuelan government and armed forces have not issued statements on the reported altercations in Apure and Bolívar. The Communications Ministry did not reply to a request for comment.
Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said at a press conference on Monday that the country’s army and security forces had been deployed along the 2,200-kilometer border with Colombia to “prevent” any fallout from increased “conflict” in Colombia.
“We do not want any conflicts that are not ours,” Cabello said. He did not address the reports of an operation against the ELN.
The interior minister additionally rejected any foreign interference in Venezuelan affairs. However, open-access flight radar confirmed the presence of US military assets in Venezuelan territory in recent days, including reconnaissance planes spotted flying over border areas.
Since the January 3 US attack and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, senior US military brass have visited the Caribbean country, including Southern Command Commander General Francis Donovan and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine.
In June, US forces conducted an airstrike in Bolívar State that they claimed to have extrajudicially executed Héctor “Niño” Guerrero, an alleged leader of the Tren de Aragua gang. Washington thanked Caracas for “cooperation,” while the Venezuelan government issued a statement informing of a “joint operation.”
The Trump administration has not commented on the reported strikes against the Colombian armed group. During a September visit to Colombia, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio referred to the presence of the ELN and dissident factions of the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as an issue that “needs to be addressed” by Venezuelan authorities.
Since taking office in August, far-right Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has launched a “total offensive” against the ELN, with multiple airstrikes, security raids, and the militarization of Cúcuta, a major town on the border with Venezuela. It has also joined the Washington-led and funded “Shield of the Americas,” a regional alliance with an express goal of cracking down on transnational crime and migration.
For its part, the rebel group has vowed to resist and condemned US intervention in the region.
The ELN is the longest active guerrilla group in Colombia, having sustained a decades-long insurgency against the Colombian state. The organization maintained an arms-length relationship with the Bolivarian government under Chávez and Maduro, operating across the vast southwestern border uncontrolled by both nations and at times cooperating with Venezuelan authorities against Colombian paramilitaries and dissident FARC elements.
The Nicolás Maduro government supported former Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s efforts to negotiate a peace agreement with the ELN, with multiple negotiating rounds held in Caracas. However, hostilities from both sides persisted and the talks broke down.
Venezuelan authorities have repeatedly denied the sustained presence of Colombian armed groups on their side of the border. In 2021, the Venezuelan army launched an operation against dissident FARC elements in Apure State, with weeks of clashes causing dozens of casualties and thousands of displaced civilians. The ELN was widely rumored to have assisted in the operation. :::
I'll just copy my response that this in the news mega over:
Uh oh the person who's entire recent posting history revolved around disparaging Venezuela and attacking those who support them with lies is editorializing again.
Here's a better article on the alleged attacks: https://orinocotribune.com/venezuelas-army-reportedly-bombs-colombian-paramilitary-group-camp-in-apure-state/
Various armed groups operate along the 2,219-kilometer Colombia-Venezuela border, including FARC dissident factions and paramilitary forces. The area has also faced illegal mining and drug trafficking, illicit activities close linked to these armed groups.
Heavy clashes between Venezuelan military forces and Colombian paramilitary groups have been reported over decades; most recently in Apure in 2021, displacing entire communities in Apure and Colombia’s Cauca department. Venezuela has also reported repeated confrontations with Colombian criminal groups near Apure and Táchira, particularly in 2021 and 2022, as documented by Orinoco Tribune.
De la Espriella militarized Cúcuta, a city on the Venezuelan border, after a recent wave of murders attributed to illegal armed groups. He had earlier militarized Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast. In recent weeks, attacks by Colombian armed groups have been reported in at least four Venezuelan states. Meanwhile, Indigenous leaders have warned of escalating violence in Amazonas and Bolívar as armed groups seek control of illegal mining. At the same time, US and Western corporate interests begin to resume operations in the area.
A month ago, another clash between armed groups and Venezuelan military personnel reportedly left one person dead and five wounded.
Another case of users here being allowed to editorialize against revolutionary movements and manufacture consent against Venezuela.
These losers were mad Venezuela couldn't attack the US but also are mad they are defending their own citizens from being raided by colombian paramilitary groups who are illegally mining and drug trafficking. Yet again this is an example of something happening in Venezuela for years and years but for some reason these absolute jackasses want to great woman delcy into the sole person responsible for the material conditions of an entire nation
To be honest I get the sense that both the Venezuela-with-Delcy defenders and Venezuela-with-Delcy decryers on this site know almost nothing about Venezuela and are picking fights to cover fragile egos (about not knowing anything about Venezuela).
I've based all my analysis on material evidence and have provide evidence disproving the many fabrications of the opposition voices here over and over again. Unlike those people, I've been keenly aware of Venezuela for more than a few months, and can prove that with my understanding of the nation both historically and over the last year. This is why those who disagree with me have never engaged with my positions and counter arguments and instead rely on logical fallicies, and making things up.
Edit: There is one side who immediately decided delcy was a comprador and did a coup and despite there being no evidence for such a thing almost a year later they still stick to it, and the other side's entire position is "we need material evidence to support our analysis as Marxists instead of making things up." None of us have "defended" any great man or woman because we are actually marxists, and the other side exclusively makes things up, editorialized and cherry picks to support their points. Trying to be an enlightened centrist about this is pretty silly
I guess I'm a decryer (the defenders have called me much worse names, so I'll take it) but I would like to make it known that I never claimed to be an expert on Venezuela. I know there are people here, including people in the Delcy Defender camp, that know a lot more about Venezuela than I do. My problem with all of this was not and is not that there are people here who firmly believe Delcy is carrying on the revolution. I actually still hope they're right, though I can't help but see with my own eyes what is happening and see that it is constantly becoming less and less tenable to hold that position.
Even if they were to believe Lenin will soon come back from the dead and save us all, I would still just look at them as being a bit kooky but I would not consider them to be adversaries or enemies, comrades that need to learn a few things sure, but so long as they are still fighting for liberation and fighting to bring about communism, I would still look to them as comrades. For example, I consider myself a Marxist Leninist but I still consider principled and knowledgeable anarchists to be my comrades, despite some fundamental differences and disagreements. The fact that I disagree with their takes on Venezuela is not what I have a problem with (though I do think they have a problem with me simply because of that disagreement).
What I do have a problem with is being told (literally, this happened more than once) to "just shut up," I think one time it was "shut the fuck up" but maybe my memory is adding the expletive. I have a problem with being called an ultra, I have a problem with being called a liar and instigator, I have a problem with being called worse things I don't want to repeat here. I have a problem with being ridiculed and silenced, all simply because I do not believe in their version of reality. I have a problem with not being allowed to discuss the possibility that AES countries can sometimes make mistakes or not be able to imply that they are not infallible. I have a problem with their burning disdain and derision towards me and towards anyone who doesn't fully swallow the narrative they have developed on Venezuela. I have a problem with being compared to fucking Zionists just because I think this leadership in Venezuela does not have the best interests for the revolution in mind when they do these things that the US is demanding of them. But to people like my harasser, that is a crime deserving of their hatred and deserving of hounding me off the site. I have a problem with being told I'm not allowed to discuss my thoughts as a Marxist Leninist - imperfect but improving - about what's happening without being told I'm essentially stupid and evil and literally that I "want all Venezuelans to die" which is a common refrain when anyone has the audacity to question the Delcy Defenders. They say if we don't believe that Venezuela is in the right hands and the revolution is being protected, then we obviously must want every Venezuelan citizen to die a horrible death being martyred by the US, when of course we want nothing of the sort. But that's what people get told, especially in the news mega, if they go against this absurd narrative they've cooked up. One user who is active in the newsmega and always posts fascinating and illuminating comments, u/InexplicableLunchFiend, was called a white supremacist! For the crime of disagreeing with the narrative.
People would ask simple questions and would get harshly berated for daring to wonder if Delcy and the cabinet were maybe making bad decisions or asking about opening up for US capital, or for privatizing national assets. People had (and still do) have to walk on eggshells so as not to rile up the wrath of a select few users who will go ballistic with their scorn and derision. If you care to, you can see some of this if you go into my history (which another user in this thread said the Delcy-Can-Do-No-Wrong Clique are using against me somehow, which is laughable because I have talked about all kinds of maybe silly things but nothing bad or out of line with good hexbear standards over the past five years I've had this account - though I've been around hexbear since its founding, and on the CTH sub before that.) Apparently they're frothing about me right now, beneath my comment in the newsmega sharing this same article as I did for this post. This is the kind of behavior I won't put up with.
That's why I decide to de-lurk and make a post when I see something happening with Venezuela that very clearly demonstrates the absurdity of their position. It's not a "gotcha! You were wrong, nyea nyeah!" it's just showing how their narrative is becoming less and less tenable with each new Venezuela-related newsworthy event. And how misdirected their sheer hatred of me and others really is. I'm simply posting news about what is going on, which is exactly what this comm is supposed to be about. And yes, part of the impetus for posting about Venezuela specifically is because it's my only way of fighting back (since I won't stoop to their level of bile and cruelty), fighting back against that abject disgust they have for me and for @Awoo@hexbear.net and for @InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net , and for a bunch of others who I don't know if they would want to be named here, just because we disagree with the dominant clique's faltering narrative.
Both "sides" of this issue are not the same, and even regardless of "who is right" they are still the ones being inexcusably despicable towards those of us they should embrace as comrades despite disagreement on this topic. So no, it's not about two sides and neither one knows much about Venezuela but thinks they do. Like I said, I have MUCH to learn about Venezuela, and I would even be glad if by some miracle that defies recent events, that the other group was right. I would be very very happy if Delcy somehow turned all this into something genuinely beneficial for the Bolivarian movement, for the Chavismos, for the communes and for the Venezuelan people. However, my harasser and the followers would love to just spit in my face no matter what ends up happening because somehow I deeply offended them by not agreeing with their supposedly superior ability to do material analysis that the rest of us Marxist Leninists are just incapable of.
That's a massive wall of text, I know, but I really did just want to get it out there and explain what's really going on and explain my position in all this, partly because I know there are lies being told about me right now (most of which I can't see because I blocked the worst offender). So I hope that if anyone cares enough to want to understand what's happening here, that this helped clear things up.
https://hexbear.net/comment/7487443
Really funny for you to talk so much shit when this comment of yours exists.
You have fabricated so much and been proven wrong and are still committed to lying and pearl clutching when people prove you to be a liar and an instigator. It really is pathetic
Just to clarify I am not personally focusing on any one user, and my subtext is the extent to which people are developing strong opinions on very little information and then getting petty with one another. I think you will likely find something there that resonates with your experience here lol, and at the risk of both-sidesing there is a "doomer" version as well but again not focusing on any one user nor accusing any one user.
I think there is a (Western?) urge to have and share opinions to feel valid or part of a conversation, and to make those opinions stron and come across as thoroughly-backed. This can clash with a need to be accurate on topics that are important for developing lines, like avoiding both (light) national chauvinism and overcompensating via defense of wrong (or potentially wrong) actions of countries run by socialists.
My opinion is that we are getting a trickle of information that is negative but not catastrophic unless it develops more seriously in the future. Because that information is a trickle and is early signs more than huge disasters (maybe barring some of the actions re: Cuba, but I need to research that more thoroughly), it has to be understood in the specific context of Venezuelan society and political economy, which is something I don't think anyone here understands. It's not something one understands via Chavista statements of 800 words nor early news articles low on context, but people are reacting to those things hot.
My read for a few years now is that post chavez the venezuelan government were larpers and not actually socialist. Maduro wasnt good, delcy isnt good and now the us has their claws in venezuela so its over.
The venezuelan peoples general take away is that socialism is bad despite fighting against it for its entirety and never really knowing it. Most dont know Marx or care. Just bc youre from a country doesnt mean youre an authority on it, ex. MAGA have no business in any serious discussion. Anti-left venezuelans are the same with the political memory of a goldfish. Venezuela always sucked and always had immense problems, hence the desire for socialism but these people will tell you a place with 60%-80% illiteracy rate and high poverty rates was actually good.
Its a complete failure. Maduro probably sold his country out.
This is a more rational take than the ones who are constantly trying to blame a single figurehead of the government for all the problems. Venezuela has always been a weak socialist nation that has struggled because of their lack of follow through in their own affairs, going back to Chavez. Never supporting Venezuela makes more sense than saying you did support them and then changing course in 2026
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A reminder to anyone still willing to critically support Venezuela that the Chavistas ≠ the Venezuelan government.
Delcy/ the PSUV absolutely deserves criticism for many of the decisions they have made post-Maduro coup, and to the Marxists/ Communists here, remember that there is still a class divide between the state and the proletariat in a socialist mode of production (which I personally would not even consider Venezuela to be in right now).
Something else to make note of. The Chavez/Maduro government allowed the ELN to use Venezuelan territory as a sanctuary for decades. This attack marks the first time Venezuela has bombed the ELN on its own soil, which makes it easy to see this as a direct consequence of Maduro's kidnapping-ouster and Delcy Rodriguez's increasing alignment (forced or otherwise) with the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apure_clashes_(2021%E2%80%932022)
Wow someone who makes shit up about Venezuela like it's their job making shit up again?? Who would have thought??
Wow 40 people upvote it without even trying to investigate? Manufacturing consent is happening right here on hexbear and the libs slurp it up like starving dogs
There is absolutely no possible argument to continue to defend Delcy, nor the rest of the party that hasn't split to be quite honest.
I base my analysis on material evidence and not made up idea from my brain so it's pretty easy to defend chavismo without being a great man theory lib. You defended FRSO's racist and anti-indigenous position on settler colonialism and now you continue with a racist and anti-indigenous narrative about Venezuela so you have already proven to have a shallow understanding of how to analyze anything
You are of course correct. But the Delcy Defenders will still try to make those arguments, they are too entrenched on this issue now to let go of their self-imposed illusions, too emotionally invested to allow something like reality and the growing mountains of evidence sway them from their certainty that the current leadership of Venezuela isn't compromised but is just putting on a show while secretly maintaining the revolution, or that Delcy and the cabinet are just doing a "tactical retreat". That last bit is a lot harder to claim now that Venezuela is literally bombing ELN guerillas for the US.
I can understand the need to believe that those now in control of Venezuela are still paragons of socialism despite all this, that the kidnapping of Maduro actually was not a significant and game-changing win for the US. It's hard to take a punch to the gut like that. But the insistence of some here that their denial of reality is actually them doing "material analysis" just makes me wince. And even worse are the attacks whenever someone posts an article like this, where the Delcy Defenders do everything they can to ridicule and silence anyone who doesn't conform to their "analysis"
You blocked all the people who argued with you because you can't have an argument without crashing out and needing to take a month off from this website. You've been proven to make things up about users here and the subjects you are speaking about. It is very ironic for you to say people are trying to silence you when they just disagree and prove you wrong and then you crash out and block them and then spend a lot of time disparaging them regularly even though you blocked them
It's funny, because even RT (which is funded by the Russian government) has openly admitted that the current Venezuelan leadership is compromised, and yet some people will still ignore all the obvious signs.
Since when is RT a judge of socialist revolutions
Well Russia is in a pretty good position to know who is aligned with the anti-imperialist bloc, as all of their allies are socialists like DPRK, Cuba and China. What's relevant is not whether Venezuela is socialist or not, what matters if they're anti-imperialist or not. If they're not anti-imperialist then they have become social chauvinists and compradors, regardless of their domestic economic positions (which are becoming neoliberal anyway, and they are not and have never been a Dictatorship of the Proletariat).
There's a good chance that Venezuelan-Russian relations have cooled considerably since their geopolitical about face. Russian state has enough intel to know that the Venezuelans are integrating with CIA as we speak. Epstein is moving in.
Russia and Venezuela just reaffirmed their partnership a few days ago: https://orinocotribune.com/putin-declares-russia-will-maintain-energy-relations-with-venezuela-delcy-rodriguez-criticizes-anti-russia-sanctions/
It's honestly amazing how almost every position you take on this subject can be immediately be proven false with evidence but instead of being an honest person who admits they are wrong you just block all the evidence and keep posting against Venezuela like your 401k depends on it
Do you know who else criticizes anti-Russia sanctions? Donald Trump.
The point of the article is responding to the point about Russia's position. Please try and follow a simple exchange if you are going to participate, otherwise you make yourself look like a fool
How can they be anti-imperialist if they are allied with Russia and China?
Most anti-imperialist countries are, neither Russia nor China are imperialist as Marxists understand imperialism and in fact are undermining the system of imperialism globally.
You misunderstand what marxists are talking about when we say "imperialist" because you are applying the liberal definition meaning "of empire" instead of the marxist definition. The marxist definition is that imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism, a phase it enters after financial-capital and industrial-capital merge with the state, such that the state becomes finance-capital and uses all of its power for the benefit of and pursuit of the interests of finance-capital. It is a borderless international system of bankers, hedgefunds and bourgeois interests.
The imperialist bloc in the world under marxist analysis is the nato bloc. The anti-imperialist bloc in the world is everyone opposing the imperialist bloc, which is every socialist state in the world, China, Iran, Russia and dprk being the most powerful among the others.
"Empire" to liberals is just "whenever a big country pursues its interests, that's empire stuff". It's wishy washy nonsense. When you mistakenly think this is what we mean when we say imperialism you totally misunderstand marxists.
If you're interested in really getting into the woods with this then you need to read Lenin's Imperialism: The highest stage of capitalism. Or you need to read Imperialism in the 21st Century by John Smith.
But yeah, the tl;dr of this whole misunderstanding is that liberals don't know what imperialism means so they have no fucking idea what we're talking about when we say this stuff.
Why would you say Russia is a socialist state? It's one of the most capitalist countries, with one of the highest wealth and income disparities in the world
lmao. there is only one empire and it's the one you're living in
the west could never be imperialist theres just simply no way, its those barbaric asians who are all imperialists, white people rule
Touché
Since never. But if a Russian state funded news channel says something like that, then it does add some credence, considering their close ties with Venezuela.
It is strange how vicious some people are about refusing to see this. It's not just a disagreement, it's a rabid attack against anyone who doesn't buy into their specific narrative.
https://orinocotribune.com/putin-declares-russia-will-maintain-energy-relations-with-venezuela-delcy-rodriguez-criticizes-anti-russia-sanctions/
Russia and Venezuela are allies who support each other. The only thing you support is imperialist narratives that are anti-internationalist, anti-Indigenous and anti-communist
Beyond sickening how a pillar of anti-imperialism, as Venezuela used to be, can so quickly become yet another comprador doing the empire's dirty work.
Defending your own citizens from paramilitary groups is actually a basic role of a modern state
The problem of not running things by council I'm afraid, you can headshot someone like Maduro and it all falls over.
This is called great man theory, it's a liberal concept not a Marxist one and is in fact anti-marxist
Curious to hear from all the people that have been in denial so far about how badly the Venezuelan state has always been compromised for this to be possible to come and explain how it is somehow chauvinism to call this what it is now.
And to be clear I was holding out some hope until now but this is incrontrovertible evidence that Venezuela's revolution has lost. It is not to say it cannot be won again but this one has failed.
Curious to hear from all the people that have been in denial so far about how badly the Venezuelan state has always been compromised for this to be possible to come and explain how it is somehow chauvinism to call this what it is now.
Just look at the news megathread's thread on this article. It's full of mind boggling cope (and attacking OP for their post history which so far as I can tell looks pretty normal). It is odd to see such a divide between the majority of the site and the news mega. I was not expecting that.
My guess is that the news mega attracts a lot of more serious marxists who just want an aggregated news source for generally leftist topics but those users don't really engage in the forum for the forum itself so don't get involved in all these spin off threads which are dominated by libs who identify with Marxism socially like a club but not as organizers or with any praxis
It is odd to see such a divide between the majority of the site and the news mega. I was not expecting that.
Not really. The main site was reluctant to call Russia anti-imperialist during the first months of the invasion. There were a lot of "inter-imperialist rivalry" talking points that the news mega has never adopted.
My position stands. I think Venezuela deserves critical support as long as the communes support the state and the state supports them. I never denied that the state made shitty decisions, under any president. But being condescending because a socialist state doesn’t fit your perfect vision is straying into left-wing communism.
We are putting "left-wing communism" and "ultraleftism" on the top shelf until ppl learn what those words actually mean and stop using them to mean "u critizised my faves"
i see you are the left wing communism expert around here
We dont need to be an expert in history to recognize ancient aliens ppl are wrong, and we dont need to be an "expert" in leftcommunism to recognize thats not what it means lol
People have gotten sloppy with their thinking and analysis, their repeated critical support for social democratic reformism has somehow morphed into an ideological hatred of actual marxist critique from the left (aka marxists)
Ruthless criticism of all that exists except for all these states, ideas, parties and ppl ive decided cant be critizised
Actually everyone here who defends Chavismo has been pretty clear of our criticisms of Venezuela. If your "ruthless criticism" is just made up and baseless accusations and great man theory it isn't a criticisms at all, it's a figment of imagination
Where did I say that
I'm sorry but a state bombing actual leftist guerillas with the support of the US military is not "ultra leftism", stop clinging to this analysis in the face of a genuine smoking gun.
"actual leftist geurillas" doing illegal mining and attacking Venezuelan towns don't get a pass just because of their alleged ideology. They haven't been able to get enough popular support to take over their nation, unlike Chavistas, so they are irrelevant
straying into left-wing communism
Or just plain old normal communism, since Venezuela is not a DotP and has never claimed to be communist nor Marxist-Leninist. They were anti-imperialist at least. Past tense.
Well, you can also ask rainpizza from Lemmygrad and jabril - Jabril's actually posted about this
At the same time, US and Western corporate interests begin to resume operations in the area
So who does #2 work for?
This coming at the same time as a drone attack blamed on gangs has disturbing connotations.
Attack on Colombian military base kills 4 civilians, including a 2-month-old
I wonder if "gangs" is now being used as the main cover word again in place of "drug dealers/drug runners" (innocent Venezuelan fishermen) now that Trump, whether correctly or not, considers Venezuela to have been conquered with the kidnapping of Maduro. Seriously, what "gangs" have both the drone capability and the motive to attack a military installation? Of course drones are relatively easy to acquire which also makes it that much easier to blame drone attacks on unrelated parties. I would bet we will be seeing more occurrences like this and of false flag operations in general, with drones as the centerpiece in the coming years.
The "gangs" moniker is usually given to leftover groups from FARC who decided to splinter when the peace agreement was signed, and have very little if any ideological motivation, other than the fact that drug running and illegal mining is good business, so they moved in after FARC de mobilized.
They're usually well supplied and organized since many of them have been fighting the Colombian army for decades
Ah, that does make more sense. Thank you for the context. Would you say it is reasonable then, that they were the ones who conducted the attack on the Colombian military base?
It's anyone's guess, really. Farc-splintered illegal gangs are usually used as an easy, scary boogeyman for any kind of crime, when it could just be unrelated organized crime settling scores with people in the base (very much like American bases, Colombian army bases have drug connections), or just some rando doing adventurism.
However, if no "official" armed group has laid claim to the hit, it's very likely it's just an intimidation tactic by a local organized crime group, which may or may not be part of the larger "gangs"
US Intelligence fucking with LATAM again as usual.
