Reconciliation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyvskYZx5mk


This video shows the presidents from Latin America in a conference they had after Raul Reyes. it shows the presidents from Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. In this conference after 2 days they all had an agree and Colombia being the most involved in the different problems between the countries agreed to keep relations with Ecuador and Venezuela and to look for an agreement with Nicaragua.

Mono Jojoy

On September 22, 2010, Victor Julio Suarez Rojas alias Mono Jojoy was shot by the Colombian Armed Forces in an operation called “Operation Sodom” near the mountainous area of La Macarena.  Mono Jojoy was the FARC’s military commander and member of the secretariat of the guerrillas. The Colombian government described the operation as the strongest operation given to the insurgent group.  Colombian Vice president doesn’t discard the possibilities to dialogite with the FARC, he says “Mono Jojoy may contain valuable information, military, economic, and perhaps handling relations information from them (the FARC) to people or institutions”. He said the Colombian government will deal  in a very prudent and very professional way and that it is not going to accept any political shows showing wrong information after several investigations. 

New President

On August 7th 2010 Colombia elected Juan Manuel Santos as the new president, who shares the same political party as Uribe and similar ideals. 

For Chavez the news were not very pleasant because Santos was the defense minister of Colombia and because of him and the Military many good operations against the FARC. However, relationships between the two presidents have not had any conflicts yet since many diplomats affirm that ex president Uribe before leaving the power let Chavez know that there is clear evidence that he had supported the guerrillas.  

"One of my goals as President is to rebuild relations with Venezuela and Ecuador, to restore confidence and favor diplomacy ... and hopefully as soon as possible," said the new president of Colombia.

One minute of silence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wo6xn1yIjE


This video shows a minute of silence in Venezuela after Chavez knew about the dead of the terrorist leader Raul Reyes.
This is a little video that shows that Venezuela supports the terrorist group and that its government helps and has relationships with FARC's memebers.

Raul Reyes

The first of March 2008 Colombia had one of the biggest successes.  Raul Reyes, one of the most important leaders of the FARC had died in Ecuador between the border of Colombia and Ecuador. The military operation was a success for the country but the conflict started a few hours later. The bombing of this leader in other territory other than Colombia brought discussions between Ecuador and Colombia, as well with Venezuela and Nicaragua. These countries made the decision to stop any economic, political, and democratic relation they had with Colombia and they made the Colombian ambassador go back to Colombia from each of the countries’ capital. Colombia’s reaction was to remain silent especially with Venezuela whose president accused Uribe (Colombian president) as a murder for killing Raul Reyes, FARC leader. SINCE Colombia was already in a conflict with Venezuela, Nicaragua took advantage and started to fight for some Caribbean islands that belong to Colombia but Nicaragua always wanted.

During this period Colombia found evidence that Venezuela’s and Ecuadorian’s presidents had contact with the terrorist leader and this evidence was presented to the international community.  However because of this, the president from Ecuador argued to the General Assembly of Organization of American States about the situation. Colombian president had to visit different places and explain the situation and why they took the decision to drop a bomb in foreign territory. At the end the General Assembly of Organization of American States accepted the apologies and understood that these operation and the drop of the bomb was for the good of Colombia and the countries around.

Finally is important to point out that Chavez ( president from Venezuela) wanted to gain external support by supporting Ecuador and the terrorist leader. Nicaragua took advantage of the situation and complained to Colombia about the Caribbean island hoping it could get some territory out of this problem.

After the conflict was solved, Ecuador which was the country affected accepted the causes why Colombia dropped the bomb, and Nicaragua stopped asking for land. However, Venezuela ordered to move Military troops to the border with Colombia and order the Colombian defense minister to leave the country. All the relationships with Venezuela stopped for a while. With dialog and slow process to get the relationships back again Venezuela, the country moved away the troops and let the minister stay in the Capital.  

Introduction

Through this blog I want you to know about the constant conflict between Colombia and Venezuela which increases as the years go by.

 First is important to know that this conflict started many years ago when the Great Colombia divided into the countries known as Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. The conflict started as a territorial and economic problem since Venezuela considers La Guajira part of its territory. After the years the conflict changed from territorial and economic to political and governmental.

Colombia has an internal conflict which consists of a terrorist group called FARC who fights against the government and does improper things such as the illegal exchange of cocaine and other drugs. The last 10 years Colombia has became a strong country when we talk about this problem because thanks to the military and the last president the problem has decreased. However, the conflict with Venezuela grows every time since the Colombian government found out that Hugo Chavez (president from Venezuela) has been helping this terrorist group to gain power and protect them behind the Colombian government knowledge.