EL UNIVERSAL
CARACAS, Friday July 11, 2008 | Update
Ex Colombian Defense Minister: Venezuelans have never been friends with FARC
Colombian Senator and former Defense Minister Marta Lucía
Ramírez said that the people of Venezuela have never been
friends with the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC).
Ramírez also said that kidnapping increased in Venezuela
by 48 percent in 2007.
"When you examine the databases of kidnapped people in Venezuela,
you note that most of them have been detained in Venezuela's
border states," she said.
The former Colombian official admitted that she was "hurt"
and "concerned" by this situation and asserted that the FARC
feel besieged in Colombia and they believe they are welcome
in Venezuela.
However, she added, in statements made in Spain that were
released by the Colombian Senate press office, "unfortunately
people in border regions are already suffering the negative
impact."
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IISS: The FARC financed Chávez before 1999
10:07 AM. DIPLOMACY. Admired by the Colombian guerrilla after his coup attempt in 1992, the then lieutenant colonel Hugo Chávez Frías received financial support by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) for his projects after his capture that year. This mostly explains the relationship and "debt" between the parties, as revealed by a paper of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) of the United Kingdom.
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