Wave of change
September 4, 2007
News that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been accepted to act as peacemaker between the Colombian government and the FARC guerillas is exceptional. Its importance and significance cannot be emphasised enough.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez has been heavily backed by the US militarily, politically and diplomatically and he and his ministers have been feted in Europe. The publicity machine in the Colombian capital Bogota has constantly proclaimed that Uribe’s creation of a powerful militia force and his subsequent successful re-election show that the country’s crisis can be resolved internally. Read more
