President Uribe throws the gauntlet at Chavez inviting him and other Government officials from other countries to a public discussion “in the framework of a wider discussion about terrorism”. This, of course, places Chavez in a tough spot, the FARC are asking him where he stands and so is Uribe. My guess, he will not accept, as we say in Spanish you can’t be in good terms with God and with the Devil at the same time.
The whole FARC discussion is very tricky for Chavez. Thousands of the Colombians that were speedily nationalized last year to vote in the recall vote, support Chavez but are in Venezuela escaping from the guerrilla activities of the FARC and would not support any sort of accommodating policy with FARC in Chavez’ part. This are not just a few thousand Colombians, we are talking hundreds of thousands.
While Colombian newspapers are reporting at least one border location which is now closed to Colombians, the Commander of the CORE 1, denies this is true.
Our own esteemed (Word used only to satisfy the new Penal Code) Vice-President, says this whole crisis has been caused by reactionary, anti-Venezuelan forces in Colombia. Well, if I recall correctly this whole “crisis” was started by the FARC itself in a communiqué in their website asking the Venezuelan Government to take a stand on the Granda case, which it did not do at the time.
Meanwhile, the US Ambassador to Colombia said that the US Government agreed with the FARC “for the first and the last time” in their call to ask President Chavze to define his position with respected to the guarantees the FARC have to visit Venezuela. The US Ambassador said that Uribe’s statement was “moderate, analytical, of transcended importance not only for Colombia but also for the anti-terrorist fight in the Andean zone.
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