Venezuelan soldiers and fighters of the National Guard were promised up to $ 20,000 each for escaping to Colombia. This was told by the Minister of Defense of Venezuela, Vladimir Padrino.
„We counted more than 100 guards among the officials, in fact, very few of them, who crossed the border in the hope of the promised 20 thousand dollars,“ quotes the words of Minister El Universal.
Padrino noted that the absence of deserted Guardsmen will not affect the combat capability of the armed forces of Venezuela.
Earlier, Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos Olmes Trujillo said during a press conference in the city of Cucuta that more than 60 Venezuelan military had sought asylum in Colombia.
