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Colombias Uribe will Take Venezuelas Maduro to Human Rights Commission
By Tamara Pearson
Ex Colombian president Alvaro Uribe
Merida, May 7th 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) Former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe said that he will take Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro to the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR), following accusations by the Venezuelan head that Uribe was involved in plots against him.
On Friday, Maduro accused Uribe, along with Roger Noriega and Otto Reich, ex members of the US State Department, of being behind a plan to depose and assassinate him. He said that he had sufficient proof and as a consequence, had increased his personal security.
Maduro alleged that there are sectors of the Venezuelan right working with Uribe, and predicted that the private media would trivialise his denunciation.
Uribe has openly worked with Venezuelas rightwing, meeting with them in July 2012, in the lead-up to the October presidential elections, to denounce atrocities and abuses by the Chavista dictatorship against democracy. He publically supported Henrique Capriles candidature. A month later, he also stated to press that he had lacked the time as president for a military intervention into Venezuela.
On the weekend Maduro also insinuated that Uribe and his paramilitaries and hired-killer groups could be behind the rightwing, which also could be behind the shooting of a private media sports journalist, Johny Gonzalez, in Caracas recently.
Uribe argued that Maduros accusation put his life at risk. He said he also wanted a libel investigation held in Colombia, and would request it of Colombias Attorney Generals office if Maduro enters the country.
Uribe called Maduros accusations immature and his lawyer, Jaime Granados Pena, said that he would appeal to the IACHR to ask for precautionary measures in favour of Uribe every time Maduros actions put [Uribes] life and bodily integrity at risk.
Venezuela withdrew from the IACHR, an affiliate body of the Organisation of American States (OAS) last year, after former president Hugo Chavez accused it of political manipulation. The year before the Venezuelan Supreme Court also refused to enforce a IACHR ruling to override a decision by Venezuelas comptroller barring opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez from holding public positions until 2014 after he was found guilty of corruption.
Further, Granados called Maduros accusations the acts of a desperate person who holds power illegitimately...to divert attention away from the corruption and illegality sponsored by the dictatorship he runs.
Maduro responded to the statements yesterday, saying, Thats what these mafia are like, they order someone to be killed and then they come out and denounce that someone wants to do something to them to shut them up.
Uribe, president of Colombia from 2002 to 2010, has himself been accused of a number of human rights crimes. Earlier this year Colombias chief prosecutors office opened a preliminary criminal investigation into Uribe over allegations he sponsored a far-right killer militia as a regional governor in the 1990s.
According to the Washington Post, members of Uribes congress collaborated with rightwing death squads to fix elections and assassinate opponents. Colombia Reports reported in 2008 that half of Colombias senate were suspected of being involved with paramilitary forces, and the next year also reported that 40,000 government officials, including mayors and governors, were under investigation for corruption.
In late 2009, a mass grave was discovered in the village of La Macarena containing around 2000 victims of the Colombian military, killed between 2005 and 2009. The Permanent Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in Colombia said on 26 January that the La Macarena site was one of thousands of mass graves in Colombia, where 25,000 people had officially disappeared by 2010.
Meanwhile, Colombias current president, Juan Manuel Santos, said yesterday that his government would defend the dignity of Uribe via diplomatic channels.
Published on May 7th 2013 at 7.44pm
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Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)Lots of people seem to want Maduro dead these days. We already know whatever Maduro says is a lie but Venanal Leakage goes on to repeat the discredited story of La Macarena where the UN investigators found NO evidence of a mass grave. Its a cemetery.
thanks for today's first lie. I am sure you have many more in store for us.
mecherosegarden
(745 posts)be marked as an animal , with a number in your arm, would you believe me?
This is an example of something we didn't want to happen .
And, do you also know that whomever dare to speak against Maduro ends either dead or in jail, like General Medina , who dare to speak against Maduro and his beloved Castro's brothers?
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Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)I used to travel to Venezuela. I may post this separately if thats OK. Here is my translation:
The Corn Flower Arrives
From Barquisimeto. Long lines separate barquismetanos from corn flower. The newspper El Impulso documented the feat of the residents in order to buy the prized ingredient for preparing arepas during the scarcity in the supermarkets. Since 6:00 am Tuesday hundreds of people congregated around the Centro Commerical El REcreo upon hearing a rumor that a shipment of flour was about to arrive. At 9:00 am the line reached the pedestrian bridge. at 9:30 1500 packages arrived. "I am indignant that this occurs in an oil country with such natural resoucres" declared a resident. (People marked with ink like animals to receive their ration)
From BarquisimetoLargas colas separan a los barquisimetanos de la harina de maíz precocida. El diario larense El Impulso documentó la hazaña de los habitantes para poder comprar el preciado ingrediente para preparar las arepas, ante las escasez en los supermercados. El rotativo relata que desde a las 6:00 am del martes cientos de personas se conglomeraron a los alrededores del Centro Comercial El Recreo, luego de que se corrió el rumor de que un cargamento del rubro estaba por llegar. A las 9:00 am la cola ya llegaba a la pasarela de la avenida Libertador hasta llegar al otro sentido. Finalmente a las 9:30 am 1.500 empaques habían llegado. Estoy indignada porque esta situación ocurre en un país petrolero y de múltiples riquezas naturales, declaró Coromoto Dum, una de las personas en la cola. Que cosas...
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Catherina
(35,568 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,617 posts)Here's another one I couldn't wait to post, as soon as I saw your tiny dictator tantrum photo:
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Raphael Correa does the spotting while Uribe combs out his lustrous tresses.[/center]