GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — The Venezuelan military is scaling down its presence at the Guyana/ Venezuela border.
Guyana’s Minister of State Joseph Harmon made the disclosure late Saturday while defending the government’s decision last week to deploy additional troops and equipment to its border in response to the stance taken by Venezuela.
According to Harmon, the Government’s response was adequate given that Venezuela’s show of force is now subsiding.
“The way we were responding to Venezuela is appropriate…as of yesterday, the reports we have, is that Venezuela has started to remove. They started scaling back – the gun boat that was in the Cuyuni is now removed and the armament they had there is now moved towards inland Venezuela,” said Harmon.
He said the response from Government was also due to the analyses taken from the reports received and it was not lacking in any form or manner.Read More…http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Venezuelan-military-scales-back-presence-at-border