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The alarms in Arauca are on. In a week between 6 and 8 men have been killed with signs attached to their backs. And at least five bodies have appeared floating in the waters of the Arauca River, on the border between Venezuela and Colombia.
“This is the message for everyone who belongs to the Aragua Train. FARC-EP ”, can be read in the pamphlets written in capital letters and on notebook sheets that appeared on the bodies of several victims.
In another of the messages left on one of the victims it reads: “DEAD BECAUSE OF BEING ON THE ARAGUA TRAIN. GUN PLAN ”.
According to sources consulted by EL TIEMPO, a criminal network from Venezuelan territory that they identify as “Tren de Aragua'¿”, would have signed a “coexistence” pact with the Colombian dissidents, in this case the tenth front, to commit crimes in the border between Colombia and Venezuela.
"There is no clarity on the date the agreement was signed, but it was evident that on the border, especially in the capital Arauca, there was a certain security and tranquility," said a former local president.
The source said that in the capital Arauca there are two transit points that everyone knows and that criminals use to “traffic drugs, weapons, merchandise and fuel. The passage of Las Canoas and the Los Güires field ”, he pointed out, stating that the two networks shared them (the points) without problem.
The ex-president denounced that Venezuelan citizens "that due to a kind of weekly confinement that is registered in the neighboring country due to the pandemic, they move every week and are supplied with all kinds of merchandise in Colombia" are forced to pay a fee to networks criminals for the right to cross the border. They pay illegal networks on both sides of the common area.