Colombia

A general article by ex Cuban president Fidel Castro on Chavez's performance as president, the role of the miltiary in Venezuela, Venezuela's relationship with Colombia, and the importance of some historical events.

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Colombian president Manuel Santos assumed responsibility for the Colombian 2008 military incursion into Ecuadoran territory after the Supreme Court of Sucumbíos, Ecuador, released a summons for 6 officials in the Colombian police and armed forces.

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Petras argues that, the government of Hugo Chavez has arrested a number of Colombian guerrilla leaders and a radical journalist with Swedish citizenship and handed them over to the right-wing regime of President Juan Manuel Santos, earning the Colombian government’s praise and gratitude.  The close on-going collaboration between a leftist President with such a regime has led to widespread protests throughout Latin America and Europe, while pleasing the Euro-American imperial establishment.

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Venezuela’s President Chavez applauded the signing of an agreement in Colombia, which will allow Manuel Zelaya, the president of Honduras overthrown in a coup in 2009, to return there.

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Documents found on computers of slain FARC commander "Raul Reyes" are inadmissible as evidence in court as the material is illegally obtained and provides no evidence, Colombia's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

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Situated in the verdant landscape along the border with Venezuela between the dramatic foothills of the Andes to the south and the plains of the Catatumbo and Zulia rivers to the north, the department of Norte de Santander has long been recognized as a strategic corridor to transport both people and goods, legal and illegal, from Colombia’s interior to the Caribbean coast and beyond.

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President Juan Manuel Santos told Spanish television on Tuesday he is confident that FARC encampments in Venezuela have been dismantled.

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On Wednesday Venezuelan authorities captured five suspected members of the right-wing Colombian paramilitary group Águilas Negras (or Black Eagles) in the southwestern border state of Táchira. 

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Incredibly, it appears that adherents of the Free Trade Agreement between the US and Colombia have commenced an effort to smear Venezuela in order to advance the prospects of the Colombia agreement by using bare statistics without elaboration or explanation to suggest that Colombia is no different. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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As Venezuela shows signs of recovery from a severe electricity shortage, the government extended its declared state of electricity emergency for another 60 days, saying the crisis will not be over until electricity production has fully recuperated and the nation is “shielded” against future climatic or other threats to its power supply.

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