Mother of French-Colombian hostage wants Chavez back as mediator

Source: International Herald Tribune (AP)

CARACAS, Venezuela: The mother of a former Colombian presidential candidate held by leftist rebels called Sunday for renewed mediation by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in hostage talks.

Yolanda Pulecio, mother of French-Colombian citizen Ingrid Betancourt, said the "only" hope of ending her daughter's nearly six years in the hands of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, was for Chavez to resume his role brokering an exchange of hostages for imprisoned rebels.

Pulecio, weeping, said on state television that she wanted her daughter "to not lose strength, to maintain the courage she has always shown, and to think of her children and how much they need her."



Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/02/america/LA-GEN-Venezuela-Colombia-Hostages.php

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Seems like not everyone shares the opinion expressed here that Chavez is an asshole because of his dispute with the authoritarian rightwing president of Colombia Uribe over the hostage negotiations.

We need to make sure the Columbia trade deal gets thrown in the trash and cut off all funds too!

regulating access to our markets is a good thing. Columbia cant just start seizing assets to pay for its operations.

Please Chavez talk to your friends and have them release my daughter?

Have you people ever wondered why Chavez has so much influence with the FARC? No, I know, its his magnetic personality, his incredible speech, or maybe he talks to them like he does the Venezuelans and the FARC feel they are being tortured...

or, is it because Chavez makes some donations here and there?

the FARC and Chavez share SOME (I stress SOME) political goals.

Although I view the FARC as a leftist movement who lost its way and became as corrupt as the government that they're trying to topple, they still may share some political goals with Chavez, being that they both represent insurgencies against U.S.-supported neocolonialism in Latin America.

So, it's possible to desire to have Chavez be an intermediary without the existence of bribing or financial help from Chavez.

Unless there's proof, rumors should remain just that...rumors.

Heck, I thought the FARC was getting rich off all that powder going up gringo noses.

Your guy, the rightwing authoritarian Uribe pulled the plug on the negotiations.

Leave Chavez and the Venezuelan people alone. Yes, Venezuela like Brazil has a large population of African slaves brought there by the colonial powers. Fortress America is being put under the "Law of Sowing vs Reaping", nature's true law.

If Chavez cuts the free/subsided oil from the East Coast and elsewhere where would the poor in USA be???

IMAGINE GLOBAL PEACE

FORTRESS AMERICA AKA MY FASCIST AMERICA AND AMERICANS

ALL REASONED OUT

HOUR OF DECISION

LET US RESTORE AND REWRITE THE "PIECE OF PAPER" CONSTITUTION

MAN THE BARRICADES
OR
REMAIN A BROWN SHIRT FASCIST ENABLER

LOVE AND "LIGHT"

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