Venezuela Probes
Colombian Paramilitary
CARACAS - Venezuelan authorities are
investigating into probable ties in this
country to deported Colombian paramilitary
leader Oscar Ospino, said Minister of
Interior and Justice Tareck El Aissami.
Though the inquiry does not link him
directly to criminal activities in this
territory, we are investigating any possible
connection with other paramilitaries, El
Aissami told Prensa Latina.
He added that Ospino's capture in the state
of Miranda ratifies the validity of
Venezuelan claims about the presence here of
Colombian irregular groups.
It is yet another proof of permanent
aggressions from Colombia to destabilize and
spread panic.
According to El Aissami, the leader of the
violent United Self-Defenses and direct
collaborator of a paramilitary leader known
as Jorge 40 acted with impunity in Colombia
and had links there with police and military
officers.
"He had to be captured here in Venezuela,"
said El Aissami from the Bolivarian National
Intelligence Service heliport, where he led
the deportation of Ospino and two
international drug dealers (also Colombian
Salomon Camacho and French Jean Marie
Bonnamy).
Bogota holds him responsible for crimes
including homicide, forced disappearance and
assembly to commit crime.
At least 2,700 crimes have been attributed
to him, including massacres and
assassination of union and rural leaders, he
explained.
In opinion of the Venezuelan government, the
incursion of Colombian paramilitary groups
responds to a subversive plan through which
so far unusual scourges like hired
assassination, kidnapping and paramilitarism
have been introduced into this country. |
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