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Venezuela border conflict mixes drug trafficking and regime-change ambitions April 16, 2021 10:25 AM CDT By W. T. Whitney Jr.
Colombian navy soldiers watch as Venezuelan migrants cross near the Arauca River, the natural border with Venezuela, in Arauquita, Colombia, March 26, 2021. | Fernando Vergara / AP
Since mid-March, Venezuelan army units have been attacking and expelling Colombian operatives active in Apure state, in western Venezuela. Colombians have long used the border regions to prepare cocaine arriving from Colombia and ship it to the United States and Europe. Fighting has subsided; eight Venezuelan troops were killed. Seeking safety, 3,500 Venezuelans crossed the Meta River, an Orinoco tributary, to Arauca in Colombia.