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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 presidents of Colombia and Venezuela, Juan Manuel Santos and Hugo Chávez, restored diplomatic relations after a meeting in Santa Marta, northern Colombia. Santos declared that the dialog with Chávez was sincere and positive, reported Caracol Radio. They planed to create a new waybill in the relations of both countries, said president Santos.
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Colombia, Venezuela and the international community are waiting the results of a meeting between president Juan Manuel Santos and president Hugo Chávez of Venezuela in Santa Marta this Tuesday in the hope to resolve the diplomatic crisis between both nations. The commercial sectors, especially from the Colombian site, has been deeply affected by the closure of the border and the suspension of any commercial trade with the break down of relations among Caracas and Bogotá.
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President Juan Manuel Santos said in the inaugural speech of his government that he is opened to dialog and negotiation with armed groups in the aim to end violence and the construction of a more prosper, equal and just society, but they must renounce to guns, kidnapping, drug trafficking, extortion and intimidation first.
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Geneva — A UN report dated May 27, but made public today, says that ‘Colombia has made important security gains after decades of armed conflict and gross human rights violations, but serious problems with its security policies have undermined the very goals the Government seeks to achieve.’ The conclusions are of Professor Philip Alston, the UN Special Reporter on extrajudicial executions.
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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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Senator Antonio Guerra is proposing to remove three zeros from the Colombian Peso (COP), said Dinero Magazine. If that project is approved by the Congress, it would cost to the Nation about 150,000 million pesos that is 81.3 million dollars.
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ABC Color, a Paraguayan newspaper, published two photographies showing president Fernando Lugo and the Venezuelan chancellor, Nicolás Maduro, with Adriano Muñoz, the brother of agronomist Zonia Ignacia Muñoz that is jailed for the kidnapping in 2008 of cattle rancher Luis Alberto Lindstron Picco. Adriano Maduro is hold by the authorities as one of the logistic managers of the ‘Army of the Paraguayan People‘ guerrilla (EPP), according with the newspaper.
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The Parliament of Catalonia decreed a prohibition to bullfighting in the northeast of Spain that will be enforced after January 1rst, 2012. The project of law was known as the Popular Legislative Initiative and was presented by 180 thousand citizens asking the definite suspension of bullfighting in the Catalonia region, an activity that is considered for many as a Hispanic tradition not only in Spain but in most Hispanic American countries like Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela. Ecuador and Peru. The congressmen voted 68 in favor of the prohibition, 55 against and 9 abstentions.
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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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