The Defection That Turned into Exile

Expand Chest vests belonging to defected members of Venezuela's Bolivarian National Guard sit in room where they are sleeping at a shelter run by a priest in Cucuta, Colombia, Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Christine Armario Colombian authorities say that more than 1,400 members of Venezuela’s security forces have arrived in their country, fleeing Venezuela. Most arrived on, or since February 23rd, the day that Juan Guaidó, National Assembly president challenging Nicolás Maduro, said he would deliver humanitarian aid to Venezuela. He called on the military to “put themselves on the…

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