by Carlos Martinez – Global Exchange Venezuela Program
In surveying US press coverage of the recent tensions between Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela one might come to the conclusion that Colombia has become the victim of the wrath of its’ evil next door neighbor, Hugo Chavez. Once again, the media spin machine has been turned against Venezuela, [...]
Caracas, March 3, 2008 (venezuelanalyisis.com) – Latin American governments and regional organizations declared support for Ecuadorian national sovereignty and regional unity, and widely condemned the assault by Colombian armed forces on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Ecuadorian territory early Saturday morning, which resulted in the deaths of 16 insurgents, among them Raúl [...]
March 4th 2008, by James J. Brittain and R. James Sacouman
A few weeks after the Ecuadorian and Venezuelan state called on the Colombian government to respect the need for peace and negotiation with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP), the administration of President Álvaro Uribe Vélez supported an extensive armed air and land [...]
Judge Vegas: accusation against Venezuela will not proceed at the International Criminal Court
ABN 05/03/2008
Caracas, Distrito Capital
Caracas, March 5 ABN.- The accusation of the Colombian government against Venezuela will not be admitted at the International Criminal Court to lack of arguments, Fernando Vegas, judge of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, said on Tuesday.
Vegas said that the [...]
ABN 05/03/2008
Caracas, Distrito Capital
Caracas, March 5 ABN.- The accusation of the Colombian government against Venezuela will not be admitted at the International Criminal Court to lack of arguments, Fernando Vegas, judge of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, said on Tuesday.
Vegas said that the arguments exposed by the Colombian government cannot be accepted as evidence for [...]
Caracas, March 05 (ABN).- The mobilization of Venezuelan troops towards the border with Colombia is not against the Colombian people but against the expansionist intentions of the US Empire, the Minister of People’s Power for the Defense, General Gustavo Rangel Briceño, said.
At a press conference offered Wednesday, he pointed out that the mobilization of 10 [...]
“The Colombian Government assumed war to death. One day the spirit from Bolivar, Sucre… and that complete effort to regulate the war, which was agreed in 1820 with the embrace between Bolivar and Morillo, will have to impose our sister Colombia to take up again the path to peace.”
These were the first words issues by [...]
