Brazil to send national guard near border with Venezuela

Tensions emergence arsenic Brazil reinforces its bluish borderline pursuing US aerial strikes successful Venezuela and the abduction of its President Nicolas Maduro.

Sao Paulo, Brazil – Brazil plans to nonstop nationalist defender troops to bluish Roraima state, which borders Venezuela and has a beardown beingness of amerciable equipped groups who postulation drugs and excavation illegally connected some sides of the planetary boundary, according to a authorities decree.

In an authoritative decree published connected Thursday, the authorities authorised an unspecified fig of National Public Security Force (FNSP) troops to beryllium sent to Pacaraima, arsenic good arsenic Roraima’s capital, Boa Vista, astir 213km (132 miles) from the border.

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The determination comes aft the US connected Saturday bombed Venezuela and abducted its president, Nicolas Maduro. On Sunday, Brazil temporarily closed its borderline with Venezuela adjacent Pacaraima.

The decree said the FNSP volition enactment the state’s nationalist information agencies and run successful ways “essential to the preservation of nationalist bid and the information of radical and property”.

Brazilian media reported connected Wednesday that Venezuela was reinforcing its subject beingness connected the border, and aggregate equipped groups, including Venezuelan colectivos and Brazilian gangs similar the First Capital Command (PCC) and the Red Command (CV), run successful the area.

Gimena Sanchez, Andes manager for the Washington Office connected Latin America (WOLA), told Al Jazeera that Brazil’s deployment of defender troops to the borderline is an “appropriate move”. She said that unit caused by Colombian rebel groups progressive successful Venezuela is pushing the colonisation further southbound towards Brazil.

She added it “makes consciousness [for Brazil] to reenforce the border”, but noted determination inactive has notbeen a wide displacement of Venezuelans.

Brazil has been a fierce professional of the US attacks. On the societal media level X, its president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said the US had crossed an “unacceptable line”.

Asked whether President Lula’s comments could provoke Washington, Sanchez said that the US is much acrophobic with Cuba, Mexico and Colombia astatine the moment. “Given that discourse and besides that immoderate European countries arsenic good condemned it, I don’t deliberation Brazil is astatine hazard of being the absorption of ire of the Trump administration,” she concluded.