The Colombian government representative at the Colombia-Venezuela meeting, Carolina Barco, said “there will be no apologies, there will be no nothing” (that’s a rough translation). Barco and her counterpart Ali Rodriguez (also Venezuela’s foremost oil expert with a long career in that field) met in Peru to try to defuse the crisis. Apart from that, Barco said the meeting was “very positive”.
Apparently Colombia’s official position is still that there was no kidnapping and that Granda was arrested in the Colombian town of Cucuta.
The Colombian government representative at the Colombia-Venezuela meeting, Carolina Barco, said “there will be no apologies, there will be no nothing” (that’s a rough translation). Barco and her counterpart Ali Rodriguez (also Venezuela’s foremost oil expert with a long career in that field) met in Peru to try to defuse the crisis. Apart from that, Barco said the meeting was “very positive”.
Apparently Colombia’s official position is still that there was no kidnapping and that Granda was arrested in the Colombian town of Cucuta.
That kind of bending of reality might work for the story that there’s no connection between the paramilitaries and the military in Colombia. Probably not. But to take it on as an international norm?
Between this and the attacks on Chavez in the North American press about the land reform (which is partial, inadequate – it doesn’t actually touch private property – and has been almost impossible to implement; more peasants have been killed in recent years trying to implement the land law in Venezuela than in Brazil, apparently), it seems that another operation against Venezuela is in gear.
