Ex-president of Colombia files suit against Chávez over guerrilla support

[Judi Lynn]

The Irish Times - Monday, August 9, 2010
Ex-president of Colombia files suit against Chávez over guerrilla support

TOM HENNIGAN in São Paulo

EFFORTS BY South American leaders to end the latest diplomatic crisis between Colombia and Venezuela have been complicated by a filing in the International Criminal Court against Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez for his support of Colombian guerrillas.

A lawyer acting for Álvaro Uribe, who handed over Colombia’s presidency to Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday, said he entered the petition on behalf of the victims of Colombia’s civil war on Mr Uribe’s last full day in office.

Last month Mr Uribe presented evidence which he said proved that the Venezuelan authorities allowed senior members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc, as well as a smaller Colombian guerrilla group, to operate freely on their territory.

Mr Chávez dismissed the allegations and broke off remaining diplomatic ties with Bogotá, long strained by a series of quarrels with the right-wing Mr Uribe, with whom he has deep ideological differences.

In addition to the personal suit against Mr Chávez at the court in The Hague, Mr Uribe’s lawyer said he had also filed a complaint against the government in Caracas with the Organisation of American States.

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1. This story is moot

after the latest developments today in Caracas and Venezuela.

It was written by a reporter in SAO PAULO, BRAZIL and who obviously plagiarized material off the Internet and put it into his own words. Too bad for him that what he wrote is already outdated and irrelevant.