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Posted on 04/12/2003 8:16:47 PM PDT by HAL9000
The army vénézuélienne intervened in Colombia at the side of the FARC (paramilitary)
The paramilitary Colombians showed Saturday the army vénézuélienne to have intervened for the first time in Colombia at the side of the guerrilla of the FARC to attack them on several occasions.
"the revolutionary Forces armed with Colombia (FARC, Marxists) received the logistic support of the national Guard (vénézuélienne), with the air and terrestrial means adapted, for the transfer of 600 of their guérilleros in the area of Catatumbo", in the North-East of Colombia, affirm the plain Self-defence of Colombia (AUC, extreme right) in a letter published on their Internet site.
Addressed to the Colombian high commissioner with peace, Shine Carlos Restrepo, this precise missive that "the Colombian territory was tackled at the end of March and at the beginning of April by the combined action of the FARC and sectors of the armed Forces and aviation vénézuéliennes" in Catatumbo, to 600 km in the North-East of Bogota.
This denunciation of paramilitary was known after the Minister Colombian for the Foreign Affairs, Carolina Barco, had made state Saturday of his "concern vis-a-vis the gravity of (recent) the assertions" of the vice-president vénézuélien José Vicente Rangel on one supposed "impunity" of paramilitary in Colombia.
José Vicente Rangel reiterated its charges Saturday evening in Caracas, by announcing that they are based on reports/ratios of the Colombian public ministry and organizations like Human Rights Watch.
Colombia and Venezuela divide a common border of 2.219 km, in prey with permanent incursions, in the two directions, of the groups subversive of the Andean country.
Since the nomination of president Hugo Chavez in Caracas in 1998, the relations between the two countries were sullied by their mutual charges with repetition, of Bogota on the "tolerance" of Caracas with regard to the guerrilla Colombian, and of Venezuela on the "passivity" of its neighbor vis-a-vis the militia of self-defence (extreme right-hand side).
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