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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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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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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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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 security‘ and 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 leader of the Peruvian Institute of Sport, Arturo Woodman, proposed that Peru, Colombia and Ecuador could make a single candidate as headquarters of the 2026 World Cup. The proposal was welcome by Colombian president Álvaro Uribe.
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The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, said during the Summit of the Indigenous and Afro-American Authorities of ALBA-TCP in the city of Otavalo, Imbabura Province, that the nations of Latin America must subscribe to a true Trade Agreement that promotes the development of the ancestral peoples.
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Juan Manuel Santos, the presidential candidate of Partido de la U, the party of the followers of President Álvaro Uribe, is the first in preferences of votes for the elections of May. If he becomes president, he will inherit even the debate with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. At least this week marked the first open discussion between Chávez and Santos. The Venezuelan leader declared that Santos is a danger for the region if he becomes president. Santos declared to the media that Chávez is intervening in the Colombian elections.
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The article by WSJ’s journalist Mary Anastasia O’Grady, “The FARC’s Ecuadorean Friends” published on June 22, attracted the attention and wrath of Ecuadorean president Rafeal Correa. The reason is understandable: O’Grady takes the Colombian position that the Correa government is friendly with the Farc because of evidence allegedly found on the late Reyes’ computer. President Correa reacted strongly against this claim to the media and The Wall Street Journal. He accused the American newspaper of a campaign of disinformation orchestrated by Colombia against Ecuador.
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