Note: DU's Judi Lynn dug all of this information up.
Uribe formally apologizes. Chavez often referred to as brusk and "injudicious" seems to be quite the gentleman in this case.
No wonder Chavez has recently turned a cold shoulder toward Columbia?
Monday, December 19th, 2005
Colombian military implicated in plot against Chavez: Uribe
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — Venezuelan former soldiers plotted against President Hugo Chavez’s government at a Colombian military building, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said.
Uribe made the stunning disclosure Saturday at this Caribbean resort town where he is meeting with Chavez, and after analyzing documents furnished by the Venezuelan leader.
“The Venezuelan soldiers who are in Bogota went to a building to meet with members of the Colombian military.
President Chavez gave us these documents … we analyzed them and this morning I said to President Chavez: ‘I must tell you the truth: this is a building of Colombia’s public forces,’” he said.
Uribe said that intelligence efforts against the Venezuelan government are conducted in the building, and took full responsibility for the affair.
The two presidents met for six hours amid a climate of unusual goodwill Saturday to discuss the purported Bogota-based conspiracy against the Venezuelan president, which Chavez first disclosed to his Colombian counterpart during a meeting in Venezuela on November 24.
Seven Venezuelans involved in a 48-hour coup against Chavez in April 2002 have been linked to the new plot.
Businessman Pedro Carmona, leader of the failed military-civilian coup, enjoys political asylum in Colombia, where he is working as a university professor.
Uribe refused asylum to six Venezuelan soldiers involved in the coup but gave them permission to live in Colombia while they look for safe haven in another country.
The conservative Colombian leader said Saturday that he takes responsibility for the events.
“I took responsibility before President Chavez and I took it in public, because the government of Colombia, which suffers from terrorism, cannot permit anyone to plot conspiracies, especially against a brother country,” he said. (snip/...)
http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/colombian-military-... (You may notice stories like this just don't make it to the U.S., do they? This one is from A.F.P. One has to wonder why that is! The only ones we get here are the ones which mock and harrass him.)
More stuff on the plot
If you think this arrangement seems like a recipe for disaster, you’re right. Disaster has struck with a vengeance during Álvaro Uribe’s administration. According to recent reports in Colombia’s media and testimony from former officials, between 2002 and 2005 the DAS was essentially at the service of paramilitaries and major narcotraffickers. It drew up hitlists of union members and leftist activists, and even plotted to destabilize Venezuela.
Jorge Noguera
All of this happened under the tenure of Jorge Noguera, Uribe’s DAS director from August 2002 until he left under a major storm cloud of scandal in October 2005. According to Rafael García, the agency’s former chief of information systems who has made a series of explosive allegations, “Jorge Noguera became the Vladimiro Montesinos of Alvaro Uribe’s government. He conspired against the governments of neighboring countries, he did away with leftist leaders, he participated in narcotrafficking operations, he maintained relations with paramilitary groups, etc. etc.”
(snip)
A hit on Chávez?
Though he offers few details, citing concerns about his security, García has told Colombia’s press that “there existed a destabilization plan against the Venezuelan government, and there are many Colombian government people involved.”
Danilo Anderson
García contends that Noguera and others were drawing up plans to kill high officials in the Venezuelan government, including leftist President Hugo Chávez. His allegations recall the 2004 arrest of 114 Colombian men at a compound near Caracas, a combination of young campesinos from Norte de Santander department and paramilitaries from the Jorge 40'sNorthern Bloc. At the time, Chávez described the Colombians’ presence as part of a plot to kill him.
Six months after that episode, Venezuela was shaken by the assassination of prosecutor Danilo Anderson, the first such attack the country had seen in over thirty years. Last November a Colombian man, identifying himself as a demobilized paramilitary member who served the DAS as an intelligence source, told Venezuelan authorities that Noguera had advance knowledge of a plan to kill high-ranking Venezuelan officials like Anderson and President Chávez. García’s testimony lends credibility to this witness’s story. Venezuelan authorities also claim that “Jorge 40” paid a visit to Maracaibo, Venezuela, to meet with anti-Chávez figures.
(snip/...)
http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/blog/archives/000242.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This particular Colombian informant, if I've got my facts straight, would have never been brought in and questioned, if it hadn't been for a fluke: someone got access to a laptop belonging to the high-rankaing paramilitary (death squad) leader, and all the names, dates, etc. started getting published.
(The man mentioned whom they DID assassinate was Chavez' special prosecutor who was going after some of the coup leaders. They rigged his jeep and bombed him.)
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