CARACAS, Tuesday July 07, 2009 | Update
Western Hemisphere
The new Honduras Minister of Foreign Affairs Enrique Ortez said on Monday that his government made a protest against Venezuela for "airspace violation" of a Venezuelan aircraft that tried on Sunday to get back to Honduras removed President Manuel Zelaya.
Ortez told reporters that the Honduras Foreign Ministry sent on Monday a note of protest to the Venezuelan government for such an event "which damaged a lot the cordial relations that have always existed with Venezuela."
However, he provided no details about how they forwarded the notice, Efe reported.
"We cannot make silence in view of the fact that an aircraft with Venezuelan registration number can enter the space which forms part of the national territory," said Minister Ortez.
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.