Colombia-Venezuela Relations

Officers of the Venezuelan National Anti-Drugs Office (ONA) arrested a prominent Colombian drug dealer, Nelson Orlando Buitrago Parada, aka "Caballo," on Saturday. 

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Venezuela’s Public Ministry has formally recommended that the extradition of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) member Guillermo Torres Cueter (aka Julian Conrado) to Colombia not be carried out, on both legal and human rights grounds. 

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Yesterday Venezuelan authorities deported two Colombians accused of drug trafficking and wanted by Interpol with red alerts, the minister for justice and internal affairs, Tareck El Aissami, told press. He described the event as “one of the most important captures we have made in Venezuela”.

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On Monday, sixteen months after restoring diplomatic and economic relations, Colombia and Venezuela signed thirteen new bilateral cooperation agreements including in health, science, technology, energy and culture. 

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Last Thursday, ex-Colombian president Alvaro Uribe urged the Venezuelan opposition to publically reject the burgeoning relationship between President Hugo Chávez and his Colombian counterpart, President Manuel Santos.

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This Monday Sept. 19th, Venezuela deported seven people involved in drug smuggling activities; six of them were Colombians and one was from the United States.

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Protest singer and member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Julian Conrado, has formally requested asylum in Venezuela almost two months after Venezuelan authorities arrested him there with the declared intention of extraditing him to Colombia

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An Aporrea TVi exclusive this month interviewed members of the Bolivarian militia who have occupied and begun community projects on the Daktari estate, El Hatillo, which was once used to train Colombian paramilitaries as part of a plan to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

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In this interview with Paul Jay from TheRealNews, Gregory Wilpert, founder of Venezuelanalysis, discusses the recent foreign policy choices of the Chávez government. Analysing topical issues such as Venezuela's growing relationship with Colombia and Venezuela's vote in favour of allowing Honduras back into the Organization of American States (OAS), Wilpert considers the motivation behind these decisions and how this relates to the Venezuelan left.

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In this video Gregory Wilpert, founder of Venezuelanalysis, discusses the recent foreign policy choices of the Chávez government. Analysing topical issues such as Venezuela's growing relationship with Colombia and Venezuela's vote in favour of allowing Honduras back into the Organization of American States (OAS), Wilpert considers the motivation behind these decisions and how this relates to the Venezuelan left.

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