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

Analyzing Trump admin's operations in Venezuela, push for Greenland acquisition A 'Fox News Sunday' panel discusses the political fallout from Minnesota’s ICE clash, public support for deporting criminals versus broader removals and President Donald Trump’s foreign policy posture in Venezuela and Greenland. Latin America’s most powerful guerrilla groups are being urged to set aside years of bloody infighting and unite against President Donald Trump, according to reports. The calls intensified in the wake of the arrest of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, which has fueled fears among groups of a looming US-backed military intervention. The recent call came from Colombia’s most wanted insurgent leader , Nestor Gregorio Vera, or "Ivan Mordisco", who released a video appeal to rival rebel factions, even despite years of brutal infighting, according to Reuters . After decades of waging a bloody conflict over territory, drug routes and illegal economies, Vera said the time had come to put differences aside. US MAY BE INVOLVED IN VENEZUELA FOR YEARS, TRUMP SAYS Colombia's most wanted rebel leader appeals to ELN and other factions to form an insurgent bloc spanning Colombia and Venezuela. (Photo by DANIEL MUNOZ/AFP via Getty Images) "The shadow of the interventionist eagle looms over everyone equally. We urge you to put aside these differences," Vera said in the video, in which he appeared in camouflage flanked by two heavily armed fighters, Reuters said. "Destiny is calling us to unite. We are not scattered forces, we are heirs to the same cause. Let us weave unity through action and forge the great insurgent bloc that will push back the enemies of the greater homeland," he added. Among the groups singled out was the left-wing National Liberation Army (ELN), Colombia’s largest and most powerful guerrilla organization, which controls vast stretches of the 1,400-mile border between Colombia and Venezuela. US RAID IN VENEZUELA SIGNALS DETERRENCE TO ADVERSARIES ON THREE FRONTS, EXPERTS SAY Police patrol in Tibu, Colombia, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, following guerrilla attacks that have killed dozens of people and forced thousands to flee their homes in the Catatumbo region. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) "The war between Mordisco’s Farc dissidents and the ELN has been very, very bloody with a huge humanitarian impact," Jorge Mantilla, a security analyst and expert on Colombian guerrilla groups, told The Telegraph. "So it calls my attention that, despite that, Mordisco is still saying, ‘stop this, let’s unite against our enemy , which is the US and its intervention’. So the cards are on the table." Colombian President Gustavo Petro, himself a former guerrilla fighter, had seized on the threat of a united insurgent front to call for a concerted effort to "remove" drug-trafficking guerrillas. He said he had invited Venezuela’s new leader, Delcy Rodriguez, to cooperate in rooting out the armed groups. But reports of a potential joint military operation involving the US, Colombia and Venezuela also raised the prospect that the ELN could finally be dismantled after more than 60 years of insurgency. Colombian insurgent leader Nestor Gregorio Vera has called...

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