Latin America rebel groups urged to form 'super guerrilla' alliance against Trump

Key Highlights

• The calls intensified in the wake of the arrest of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, which has fueled fears among groups of a looming US-backed military intervention. The recent call came from Colombia’s most wanted insurgent leader, Nestor Gregorio Vera, or "Ivan Mordisco", who released a video appeal to rival rebel factions, even despite years of brutal infighting, according to Reuters.
• After decades of waging a bloody conflict over territory, drug routes and illegal economies, Vera said the time had come to put differences aside.
• US MAY BE INVOLVED IN VENEZUELA FOR YEARS, TRUMP SAYS Colombia's most wanted rebel leader appeals to ELN and other factions to form an insurgent bloc spanning Colombia and Venezuela.
• (Photo by DANIEL MUNOZ/) "The shadow of the interventionist eagle looms over everyone equally.
• We urge you to put aside these differences," Vera said in the video, in which he appeared in camouflage flanked by two heavily armed fighters, Reuters said."Destiny is calling us to unite.