Latin America rebel groups urged to form 'super guerrilla' alliance against Trump

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Latin America’s astir almighty guerrilla groups are being urged to acceptable speech years of bloody infighting and unite against President Donald Trump, according to reports.

The calls intensified successful the aftermath of the apprehension of erstwhile Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, which has fueled fears among groups of a looming US-backed subject intervention.

The caller telephone came from Colombia’s astir wanted insurgent leader, Nestor Gregorio Vera, oregon "Ivan Mordisco", who released a video entreaty to rival rebel factions, adjacent contempt years of brutal infighting, according to Reuters.

After decades of waging a bloody struggle implicit territory, cause routes and amerciable economies, Vera said the clip had travel to enactment differences aside.

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Colombia's astir wanted rebel person appeals to ELN and different factions to signifier an insurgent bloc spanning Colombia and Venezuela. (Photo by DANIEL MUNOZ/AFP via Getty Images)

"The shadiness of the interventionist eagle looms implicit everyone equally. We impulse you to enactment speech these differences," Vera said successful the video, successful which helium appeared successful camouflage flanked by 2 heavy equipped fighters, Reuters said.

"Destiny is calling america to unite. We are not scattered forces, we are heirs to the aforesaid cause. Let america weave unity done enactment and forge the large insurgent bloc that volition propulsion backmost the enemies of the greater homeland," helium added.

Among the groups singled retired was the left-wing National Liberation Army (ELN), Colombia’s largest and astir almighty guerrilla organization, which controls immense stretches of the 1,400-mile borderline betwixt Colombia and Venezuela.

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Colombia ELN Violence

Police patrol successful Tibu, Colombia, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, pursuing guerrilla attacks that person killed dozens of radical and forced thousands to fly their homes successful the Catatumbo region.  (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

"The warfare betwixt Mordisco’s Farc dissidents and the ELN has been very, precise bloody with a immense humanitarian impact," Jorge Mantilla, a information expert and adept connected Colombian guerrilla groups, told The Telegraph.

"So it calls my attraction that, contempt that, Mordisco is inactive saying, ‘stop this, let’s unite against our enemy, which is the US and its intervention’. So the cards are connected the table."

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, himself a erstwhile guerrilla fighter, had seized connected the menace of a agreed insurgent beforehand to telephone for a concerted effort to "remove" drug-trafficking guerrillas.

He said helium had invited Venezuela’s caller leader, Delcy Rodriguez, to cooperate successful rooting retired the equipped groups.

But reports of a imaginable associated subject cognition involving the US, Colombia and Venezuela besides raised the imaginable that the ELN could yet beryllium dismantled aft much than 60 years of insurgency.

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Colombian insurgent person Nestor Gregorio Vera has called for guerrilla unity aft Nicolas Maduro's seizure and targets rival factions on the border.

As antecedently reported by Fox News Digital, guerrillas present run on Venezuela’s 2,219-kilometer borderline with Colombia and power amerciable mining adjacent the Orinoco lipid belt.

The National Liberation Army (ELN), a Colombian Marxist guerrilla radical with thousands of fighters and designated a U.S.-designated violent organization, has operated successful Venezuela arsenic a paramilitary force.

The radical is believed to person astir 6,000 fighters and controls cardinal cocaine-producing regions, amerciable mining operations and smuggling routes, per reports.

Following Mr Maduro’s capture, the ELN vowed to combat to its "last driblet of blood" against what it called the US empire.

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"Today, the main extremity of the ELN is not the takeover of powerfulness successful Colombia oregon to rebuild a Colombian state, but much truthful to support the Bolivarian Revolution, due to the fact that they see themselves a continental guerrilla [group] due to the fact that their ideological inspiration is Latin Americanist, truthful they consciousness the conflict of Venezuela is their struggle," Mantilla told the Telegraph.

"I deliberation ELN is, close now, successful a precise susceptible position," Angelika Rettberg, governmental subject prof astatine the University of the Andes successful Colombia told the outlet.

"I besides don’t deliberation that adjacent if they are capable to physique this unified organization, that would marque them little apt to beryllium deed by an eventual US attack," Ms Rettberg said.

Emma Bussey is simply a breaking quality writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked astatine The Telegraph with the U.S. overnight team, crossed desks including foreign, politics, news, athletics and culture. 

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