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CARACAS, Tuesday March 03, 2009 | Update
Venezuela condemns Colombian Defense Minister's statements
Venezuela branded the official as a "threat to the stability and the sovereignty of Latin American countries"
Western Affairs
The Venezuelan government condemned on Tuesday Colombian
Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos' statements, and branded
the official as a "threat to the stability and the sovereignty
of Latin American countries."
In a press release, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry described
as "reprehensible the arrogant attitude" of Santos, who last
Sunday advocated as "legitimate right to self-defense" the
attack on "terrorists who are systematically assaulting the
population of a country, even though they are not within its
territory," AFP reported.
Santos was referring to Colombia's military operation in
Ecuador, a year ago, when the Colombian armed forces attacked
a camp of the rebel Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC)
and killed the FARC's second in command.
Venezuela claimed that Santos' remarks show his "coarse ignorance
of the unanimous consensus" reached the regional summit held
in Santo Domingo in March 2008.
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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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