[Marxism] Venezuela Severs Relations w/Colombia over FARC Kidnapping

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Ireland Online - Jan 15, 2005
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Venezuela severs relations with Colombia over rebel's capture

15/01/2005 - 10:49:50 President Hugo Chavez said diplomatic and 
commercial relations with Colombia would be suspended until the country 
apologised for paying bounty hunters to snatch a senior rebel from 
Venezuela.

President Hugo Chavez said diplomatic and commercial relations with 
Colombia would be suspended until the country apologised for paying 
bounty hunters to snatch a senior rebel from Venezuela.

Chavez said he ordered all commercial agreements with neighbouring 
Colombia - Venezuela’s second largest trade partner – to be suspended 
until the diplomatic row was resolved.

"With much pain I have recalled the ambassador in Bogota and he will not 
return until the Colombian government offers us apologies,” Chavez said 
during a speech to the National Assembly. “I’ve ordered all agreements 
and business with Colombia to be paralysed.”

Chavez said the move included the suspension of plans to build a €157m 
natural gas pipeline from Venezuela to Colombia’s Pacific coast, which 
would allow Venezuelan fuel to be more easily shipped to Asia and the US 
west coast.

But Colombian president Alvaro Uribe last night defended his country’s 
“right to free itself from the nightmare of terrorism” and offered no 
apologies.

“The Colombian police has explained clearly and forcefully that it has 
not violated Venezuela’s sovereignty,” Uribe said in a statement from 
his office.

Uribe called the use of bounty hunters a “legitimate instrument” to 
fight terrorism. He also reiterated Colombia’s desire to have good 
relations with Venezuela.

Venezuelan officials called the December 13 capture of Colombian rebel 
Rodrigo Granda in Caracas a violation of sovereignty. Granda is a member 
of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, overseeing its 
international relations.
       
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