Colombia to protest 'Venezuelan warplane incursion'

Colombia plans to launch a formal protest Monday against Venezuela for allowing warplanes to cross into Colombian airspace, amid a border crisis between the neighbors. The Colombian defense ministry said that two Venezuelan military aircraft entered through the Alta Guajira zone on the northern border with Venezuela on Saturday afternoon. The planes, it said, entered Colombia for nearly three kilometers and then flew over an army unit. The ministry did not describe the type of aircraft detected. Caracas accused Bogota of inventing the incursion to scupper a potential meeting between the presidents of both countries intended to resolve their diplomatic and border crisis. More…