Cura Calderon rescued alive

August 23, 2003

Omar “Cura” Calderon the former Governor of Tachira State was rescued yesterday in a joint effort by Venezuelan and Colombian police. Calderon said that he was kidnapped by Colombian common criminals in Venezuela, who thought that he was a rich man. The Government immediately said that the opposition had said this was political and that finding him shows it was not. What the Vice-President seems to have forgotten was that the puzzle when Mr. Calderon was kidnapped was the almost total silence by Government officials who essentially ignored the fact that an important opposition figure had been kidnapped. In fact, the only public statement the first two days was that of Tachira Governor Rnald Blanco who accued Mr. Calderon of kidnapping himself in order to gain publicity. This fact was never mentioned by the Vice-President in his customary selective memory. Events like this should be handled as non-political issues but that seems to be impossible in Venezuela today.

This entry was posted on August 23, 2003 at 12:05 am and is filed under Venezuela.

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