Colombian President Rejects Venezuelan Plea

Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, used his state of the nation to request that Venezuela (along with the rest of the world) stop categorizing the Farc and ELN guerilla movements as terrorist groups and instead call them “insurgent forces”.

The request was quickly shot down by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, “the only thing they have produced is displacement, pain, unemployment and poverty.” He again referred to them as terrorists who funded their operations with drug smuggling (mostly cocaine) and recruited children to do their violent dirty work to topple a democratically elected government.

Although President Chavez helped broker a deal that released hostages on both sides to their respective countries. Some say it is showing the Farc and ELN wilingness to cooperate and negotiate but Uribe refuses to acknowedge that they are anything but terrorist organization. And so, the conflict continues as is…

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