i really hope the pictures of the bridges show. this just bothers me...are these people really this ass backward? for f's sake! lift one end of the bridge and throw it into the river and watch it float away....dynamite? next time call in an airstrike...

Venezuela admits to have flown two border bridges

Also he referred that of the Colombian side they sent to stones and forceful objects against the Venezuelan National Guard.

The commander Eusebio Sequera Omen offered east Thursday details of the destruction of two passages towards Colombia in the border zone.

Sequera omen confirmed that Venezuelan troopses destroyed with explosives the accesses, but assured that it was not contemplated bridges in international treaties, but of “ pedestrian steps ”.

Minister of Defense of Colombia Gabriel Whistles denounced yesterday the destruction of two border rudimentary bridges presumably at the hands of cash of the troopses of Venezuela.

“ was not bridges, was pedestrian steps (…) and is not contemplated in any international treaty ”, said the Commander.

It explained that through those steps they entered paramilitary Venezuelan ground drug trafficking and, equally indicated that a flight of foods and fuels of illegal form took place towards Colombia.

The military civil servant reiterated that “ both pedestrian steps of the Venezuelan side were destroyed ”.

It explained that this procedure was realised “ with all the safety measures ” and that ” with explosives was carried out by “ the effective military of the Venezuelan side.

However, Sequera recognized that the amount of populations affected by this measurement has not calculated.

“ I have not removed the amount from populations that benefit from the Colombian side, but know that with the destruction of these pedestrian steps I am going to avoid that they enter Venezuelan territory drug trafficking, paramilitary and that they are continued leaving the fuel and foods ”, she said.

It left knowledge that are people no stopped by procedures of control in that border zone, “ because normally when we arrived at the operative ones from security to establish controls in these pedestrian steps, of the Colombian side they began to send stones and forceful objects against the military cash and for that reason that decision was taken ”.

Sequera was emphatic when aiming that this procedure “ was of the Venezuelan side and was a sovereign decision of the Venezuelan State ”.

This way, it indicated that “ the steps that are authorized are those that are established in international treaties, which are the passage by San Antonio, Ureña and Mouth of Outcry ”.

The military man left knowledge that does not discard that other passages of this type are destroyed.

“ Tenemos the information of other pedestrian steps that with the due authorization of the Government they will be destroyed ”, indicated. (Agencies)