Government rejects Farc proposal to Unasur

On 2010/08/23, in Conflict, Politics, Region, by Albeiro Rodas

The proposal of the FARC guerrilla to the Union of South American Nations, UNASUR, to offer a dialog of peace was rejected by president Juan Manuel Santos. The communication of the insurgent group was published by Annacol, the official website of the armed group, where it is said that the Colombian government ‘closed any door to dialogue with the insurgency spurred on by the mirage of a military victory and Washington’s interference.’ Santos answered that the government wants that the guerrilla releases the hostages. The president said also that there is not the need of mediators. 

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Fidel Castro Vs Álvaro Uribe

On 2010/08/17, in Conflict, Politics, Region, by Albeiro Rodas

The critics of Fidel Castro to the government of ex-president Álvaro Uribe where immediately answered by the Colombian politician. Castro, who has currently a high cover by the media of his country, criticized the decision of the UN to delegate Álvaro Uribe in the commission to investigate the Freedom Flotilla incident. The Cuban ex-president said that it is a ‘blunder‘ such election because Uribe ‘is accused of crimes of war‘ and that Ban Ki-moon was following ‘superior orders‘. Castro met recently Colombian senator Piedad Córdoba, one of the main political opponents to Uribe.

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Murdered in Medellin union leader

On 2010/08/13, in Conflict, Economy, by Albeiro Rodas

Luis Germán Restrepo Maldonado, 58 years old, president of the packaging union, was murdered in Medellín downtown by a gangster. Restrepo Maldonado was one of the unionist leaders who more defended the Free Trade Agreement with United States before the Congress of that country. President Álvaro Uribe gave him a recognition during the 35th anniversary of Sintraempaques, a packaging company, in November 2009. The authorities are investigating the crime.

The Constitutional Court of Colombia that is currently studying the validity of the military agreement of the South American country with the United States, deferred any decision to August 17 in order to analyze the negative report on it.

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The general secretary of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, met in New York with the international committee that was created to investigate the Israeli attack to the Freedom Flotilla on last May 31 and generated a diplomatic crisis between Israel and Turkey. The committee is presided by former primer minister of New Zeland, Goeffrey Palmer and former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe as vice-president of the commission.

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Colombia and Venezuela, the challenge of UNASUR

On 2010/07/30, in Culture, by Albeiro Rodas

The hopes of many of a solution to the Colombian-Venezuelan diplomatic crisis in the UNASUR chancellors summit in Quito reach nothing in concrete. Things remained strictly at the same point of July 22 when the Colombian government denounced before OAS the presence of guerrilla camps in the Venezuelan territory with the consecutive denial of Caracas. There was only the compromise of a new summit of presidents.

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Colombia dismissed a peace proposal for its internal conflict that Venezuela intends to present in the summit of chancellors of UNASUR, the South American Union of Nations, in Quito. Colombian chancellor Jaime Bermúdez declared that it is not a fundamental solution.

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The Colombo-Venezuelan Tragicomedy

On 2010/07/26, in Conflict, History, Politics, Region, by Albeiro Rodas

The last days of Álvaro Uribe Vélez as president of the Colombians has been especially active preparing the setting for the next leader at the Nariño House. Putting things ‘at place’ inside and outside, the president has declared for example that those who denounced the existence of mass graves in Macarena are ‘enemies of the democratic securityand that peace process proposals are strategies of ‘terrorist in order to recover‘, while his government presented proves to OAS of guerrilla camps in Venezuela, causing the expected anger of Chávez with his subsequent breakdown of diplomatic relations with Colombia.

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President Álvaro Uribe questioned the legal process that Ecuador is following to General Freddy Padilla de León, a process that includes also elected president Juan Manuel Santos, for the bombing to the Raul Reyes camp on the Ecuadorian forest  on March 1rst, 2008.

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The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) asked to the US Embassy in Colombia to reconsider the visa grant to journalist Hollman Felipe Morris because its denial could put him in a state of vulnerability before antagonistic groups.

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