Who killed the Venezuelans at the border?

September 19, 2004

On Friday, six Venezuelan soldiers and a PDVSA technician were killed by a group of “irregulars” in Apure State. In characteristic fashion, we will probably never know the truth:


1-The Minister of Defense of Venezuela blames the Colombian paramilitary or drug traffickers. Translation: We can not blame our friends from the Colombian guerrilla, FARC, but we have no clue who did it.


 


2-The Colombian Foreign Minister blames the FARC guerrillas. Translation: We can not blame our friends the paramilitary, but we have no clue who did it.


 


3-El Nacional quotes sources within the Venezuelan military, as saying it was a FARC group of 20 people who did the killings.


 


I’ll go with 3) these sources usually know better and say the truth more often than the Ministers from either side.


 


Note 1: You would be pleased to know that the Government is using F-16’s to look for those that did this. At last they are put to use, I am not sure how a pilot on an F-16 can have time to look out for 15-20 people walking around, but this is a revolution after all.


 


Note 2: I don’t usually plug my Orchids section (not often at least), but you should be curious about the picture of whta may be my favorite orchid, beautiful, majestic and elegant.

This entry was posted on September 19, 2004 at 11:03 pm and is filed under Venezuela.

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