Venezuela detains Sinaloa cartel members in clash at Colombian border
APRIL 9, 20219:58 PMUPDATED 20 HOURS AGO
By Reuters Staff
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan forces detained members of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel during clashes with armed groups near its western border with Colombia, a top Venezuelan military official said on Friday.
Venezuela’s military on March 21 launched an offensive against what officials called irregular Colombian armed groups in the western state of Apure. About eight Venezuelan soldiers have died during the operations, which have caused about 5,000 people to flee across the border.
“We even captured some individuals from the Sinaloa cartel,” the chief of Venezuela’s strategic operational command, Remigio Ceballos, said in a telephone call broadcast on state television.
Ceballos did not specify the names of the people detained, nor how many cartel members were taken into custody. He said some individuals from Brazil were also detained, and said all would be presented to the country’s courts.
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