[NYTr] Venezuela Denounces Colombian Paramilitary Actions
 
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:43:48 -0600 (CST)

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Venezuela Denounces Colombian Paramilitary Actions

Caracas, Dec 16 (Prensa Latina) Colombian paramilitaries work in the
western state of Zulia, governed by opposition figure Manuel Rosales,
Panorama newspaper stated Sunday citing "totally reliable sources."

Zulia is considered the most violent state of Venezuela, although
paradoxically Rosales in his presidential campaign against President
Hugo Chavez, criticized insecurity.

"Paramilitarism in Venezuela spearheads in Maracaibo, capital of
Zulia," according to the regional daily's report based on "a
confidential information from sources of total reliability for the
Venezuelan and Colombian military intelligence."

The information states that groups created to fight leftwing guerrillas
in Colombia work in Venezuela in bands called "Black Eagle," "Blue
Eagle," and "Red Eagle."

Alluding support to regional landowners, it indicates that the
phenomenon started in the zone of Machiques in 2004, when stockbreeders
contracted a Colombian colonel named Novoa, to train about 90 men with
weapons.

Colombian paramilitaries have been used to destabilize the
goverbnment of President Chavez, including an assassination plan for
which 41 members of those irregular groups were sentenced to prison in
2005.

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