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Chavez offers his help to French aid mission for Betancourt

Chavez offers his help to French aid mission for Betancourt
Posted : Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:56:00 GMT
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/196662,chavez-offers-his-help-...

Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has offered France his help in its humanitarian mission to aid former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who is reportedly ailing after six years of jungle captivity at the hands of leftist rebels. Chavez said Thursday night in Caracas that he offered to personally escort the French mission, which includes a former French consul and doctors, during a telephone call with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

"I would be willing to go with Sarkozy to find Ingrid, and not only Ingrid but a whole group of hostages, and to push for a humanitarian exchange," said Chavez, who has had a mediating role in the past with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the rebel group holding Betancourt, 46, who holds dual French-Colombian citizenship.

The French group arrived in Bogota Thursday. FARC has given no indication it would cooperate with the group, but the rebels did release a message Thursday rejecting a unilateral release of Betancourt and saying only a prisoner exchange would free her.

People who have seen Betancourt recently have said she is suffering from hepatitis B; malaria; malnutrition; depression; and black fever, the most severe form of leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that in nearly always fatal if left untreated.

Chavez said on state-run television that Sarkozy suggested Chavez contact Ivan Marquez, one of the FARC leaders, to facilitate the French medical mission.

By sloopskipper on Apr 4, 2008, 06:39 in Politics & the war. AddThis Social Bookmark Button


bamacellist says on Apr 4, 2008, 16:05:

That's kind of funny because:

Chavez says he can't help on Betancourt

BOGOTA, Colombia -- France asked the Venezuelan president for help Friday with a hurried mission to free an ailing hostage held by Colombian rebels, but Hugo Chavez said he can't do anything unless Colombia and the U.S. back off their hunt for a guerrilla leader....

http://www.miamiherald.com/915/story/482844.html

"The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."

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Mr. Hollywood says on Apr 4, 2008, 17:34:

It's nice to see the Associated Press noting that fact that there are hundreds of hostages being held, not just Betancourt or the other "high value" hostages.

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sloopskipper says on Apr 4, 2008, 17:56:

Yeah, Hollywood, really!

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romy says on Apr 6, 2008, 17:06:

Colombia: Francia apuesta por Chávez para lograr liberar a Ingrid Betancourt
Infolatam
Bogotá, 6 de abril de 2008

Francia apuesta por Hugo Chávez como interlocutor ante las Farc para conseguir la liberación de Ingrid Betancourt cuyo estado de salud empeora por momentos. Nicolas Sarkozy habló con Chávez, quien ha asegurado que ya no "hablará en público" y que sólo "actuará". Francia también contactó con la senadora Piedad Córdoba. La presidenta argentina, Cristina Kirchner, se manifestó ayer en París y pidió a Uribe que ayude a liberar a Betancourt.

Francia busca un canal de comunicación con la guerrilla, algo que todo indica que no posee el gobierno de Nicolas Sarkozy. De hecho, que el propio Presidente de Francia se dirigiera de forma pública al jefe de las Farc evidenciaría, según los expertos, que Sarkozy no tiene un canal directo de comunicación con la guerrilla.

La semana pasada Sarkozy se dirigió a Manuel Marulanda diciéndole: "Cada uno está ahora frente a sus responsabilidades. Usted tiene las suyas, asúmalas...Señor ‘Marulanda', usted tiene una cita con la historia. No la incumpla. Libere a Ingrid y a los secuestrados más enfermos. No hacerlo sería un trágico error político". Todo indica que tras la muerte de ‘Raúl Reyes' no hay canales de comunicación como evidenció el reciente comunicado del líder guerrillero ‘Iván Márquez' cuando aseguró que después de ese episodio "el acuerdo humanitario está moribundo".

Así pues, dada esta situación, Francia ha vuelto los ojos hacia Piedad Córdoba y el presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez, quienes cuando mantuvieron contacto con las Farc, a finales de 2007, entraron en contacto con ‘Raúl Reyes' y con su presunto heredero, ‘Iván Márquez', quien además, en su reciente comunicado, aseguró que mantiene buenas relaciones con los dos.

La presidenta de Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, que viajo a París, pidió al "Gobierno de Colombia, a todas las instituciones y a las FARC" que "liberen" a Ingrid Betancourt, rehén de la guerrilla, y llamó a que se eliminen "todos los obstáculos" que impiden su liberación. "Quien más esfuerzo debe hacer para la liberación de estos obstáculos son precisamente quienes tienen la responsabilidad de conducir las instituciones de la democracia y facilitar el canje humanitario", afirmó en alusión al presidente de Colombia, �lvaro Uribe.

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