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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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In August 2009 a Thai court denied the US extradition request of Viktor Bout, the Russian that is accused of supply weapons to the Farc, because that court did not consider the Colombian guerrilla a terrorist organization. However, a heavy US pressure over Thailand caused a new result: Bout is going to face an American court, even if Russia thinks that it is a political motivated decision.
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The president of the Colombian Congress, Armando Benedetti, visited Venezuela with the intention to improve the diplomatic and political relations after the meeting of presidents Hugo Chávez and Juan Manuel Santos. Benedetti evaluated his meetings as positive. President Chávez reiterated his compromise of fighting terrorism and the respect for the sovereignty of the countries, said the senator.
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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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The initiatives of peace of individuals or groups with the Colombian guerrillas that are not consulted with the government are not authorized, said Minister of Defense Rodrigo Rivera and he ordered the continuity of military operations against armed groups, according to Caracol Radio.
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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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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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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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