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| "Chávez causes tension on the border out of political interest" |
| 2010-05-15 |
| In the opinion of Felipe Muñoz, the director of the Security Administrative Department (DAS), Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez induces tension on the common border out of political interest and to mitigate troubles at home. "My theory is that President Chávez needs to win confrontation scenes on the border because the two (Venezuelan) bordering states are in the hands of the opposition, and therefore, against all these backgrounds of paramilitaries and Colombian spies, he tries to create a destabilization situation," Muñoz said, Efe reported. Muñoz thus replied on the issue of detentions and killings of Colombians in Venezuela, linked by Chávez's government with spying and paramilitaries. "What we have here is a number of subject matters that has nothing to do with reality," he added. According to Colombian Progresar Foundation, in the last decade 16,000 people have been killed and 1,800 are missing on the Colombian-Venezuelan border. Wilfredo Cañizalez, the Foundation CEO, told Efe that political clashes between Colombian President Álvaro Uribe and his Venezuelan counterpart "has created a cloak of darkness to cover and hide the reality on the border," ranked among the most dangerous in South America. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Well, he at least hasn't torpedoed a Columbia Navy ship. Yet. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-05-15 08:45 |