Venezuelan 軍の 見捨てる人／脱走兵s willing to return to fight Maduro
By Nelson Bocanegra
CUCUTA, Colombia, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Sergeant Javier Gonzalez knew he would be killed if caught 砂漠ing Venezuela's 軍の to 逃げる to Colombia, but the thought of his nine-month-old son 苦しむing the 欠如（する） of milk and diapers in his economically 荒廃させるd country steeled his 解決する.
Gonzalez's wife, Sergeant Kari Castro, escaped a day later on Sunday, crossing a 河床 近づく the Colombia city of Cucuta with their baby and two other family members.
The couple are two of at least 167 members of the Venezuelan 武装した 軍隊s who have 砂漠d and turned themselves into Colombia's 移住 機関 over the last three days.
The desertions began Saturday, during a failed 試みる／企てる by Venezuela's 対立 to 運動 a 軍用車隊 of hundreds of tonnes of international 人道的な 援助（する） into the country, にもかかわらず a 拒絶 by Venezuelan 大統領 Nicolas Maduro to 受託する the food and 薬／医学.
Two トラックで運ぶs caught 解雇する／砲火／射撃 on a 国境 橋（渡しをする）, after 存在 停止（させる）d at Venezuelan 国家の Guard バリケードs. Violent 衝突／不一致s between 抗議する人s and the 武装した 軍隊s left almost 300 負傷させるd and at least three 抗議する人s dead 近づく the Brazilian 国境.
The support of the 軍の is considered 重要な for Maduro to 保持する his 持つ／拘留する on the country, 特に since last month, when 対立 国会議員 Juan Guaido invoked the 憲法 to assume an 暫定的な 大統領／総裁などの地位.
"I 砂漠d for the life of my son. We're working for a salary that doesn't stretch to anything. We can't live in 悲惨. Enough, we're tired," said former 国家の guardsman Gonzalez, 28, who earned about $13 a month in the 階級s.
不足s of basic goods and political 不安 finally 押し進めるd the family to leave, said Castro, 38, who has spent half her life serving in the 武装した 軍隊s.
"It's so difficult to go to another country when you've given your life to an 会・原則," she said.
Gonzalez said that since his desertion he has been in cont 行為／法令／行動する with former 同僚s who are also willing to defect. Many in the 武装した 軍隊s are afraid of Maduro's 知能 軍隊s, he said, which has 報道によれば 拷問d and killed those who go against Maduro.
"They're going to do it - I have lots of 同僚s 令状ing to me and they are 動機づけるd, they just need a little 押し進める," he said during an interview in Cucuta.
The couple said they are willing to return to their home country to help Guaido ひったくる 支配（する）／統制する from Maduro, who 否定するs any 危機 and says the 援助（する） 軍用車隊s are a U.S.-支援するd ruse to 追い出す him.
"It's never too late to take the step - if our 大統領，／社長 Guaido is supporting us, we'll support him," said Gonzalez, who served in the 国家の guard for eight years. "If we must form 部隊s here to 計画（する） the 引き継ぎ／買収 of our country we'll do it."
Guaido, 認めるd by most Western nations as Venezuela's 合法的 leader, 勧めるd foreign 力／強力にするs to consider "all 選択s" for 追い出すing Maduro at a Monday 会合 of the Lima Group 地域の 圏.
Colombian 大統領 Ivan Duque told the 団体／死体 the desertions showed there are 割れ目s inside the Venezuelan 武装した 軍隊s and called for a "支配 影響" of more defections.
(報告（する）／憶測ing by Nelson Bocanegra; 令状ing by Julia Symmes Cobb; Editing by Helen Murphy and Lisa Shumaker)
