Reply #33: That wouldn't have been an agreement based on a childish friendship base. [View All]

It's something which would benefit both countries, and would be seriously discussed for the benefit of the two countries involved. Business.

You may not have taken the time to acquaint yourself with the more complex issues at stake. Several plots have been hatched in Colombia, involving either Uribe's head of his secret service, Jorge Noguera, or members of the Colombian paramilitaries, in many cases former soldiers in the Colombian Army, and in two cases, they've been caught inside Venezuela, near Caracas, quartered in barracks on a ranch owned by Cuban-Venezuelan right-wing opposition miltant activist Roberto Alonso, as per the testimonies of the captured men.

They said they were imported by the opposition members to break into a National Guard armory, steal weapons, arm 1,500 men, and launch an assault planned by Venezuelan opposition members.

DU'ers here discussed these incidents, and also the fact that recently Hugo Chavez pardoned the paramilitaries and returned them to Colombia, indicating he believed they were simply employed by others, and not the authors of the plot themselves, and should return home.

Just LAST WEEK more people were discovered with a cache of weapons and supplies, with cars, uniforms, cell phones, laptops, drugs for keeping them awake, and a second location. Government agents will be tracking down the information on the computers, and the text messages, and investigating this more deeply.

There is so much more involved than some stupid, childish "but I thought they were good buddies" crap. You owe it to yourself to start paying far more attention and diving in there to research for yourself.