Commander Chávez rejects accusations about guerrilla cover-up on Venezuelan soil

On July 23, 2009, the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chávez, in the 5th issue of the Theoretical Aló Presidente, rejected statements about the cover-up of Colombian guerrilla fighters.

“I don't have any guerrilla fighters here, because we shot ourselves with the guerrillas, and we captured guerrilla fighters and handed them over there. The problem is theirs, not ours, and they want to throw the problem away from us. How beautiful it is! , you set fire to your house and say: “No, my neighbor set it on fire”; that's what's happening with Colombia, and the Yankees support them in that,” Chávez stressed.

In this context, he stressed that the origin of drug trafficking is from Colombia “we are victims of that, and mass consumption is in the United States. Now they say that we are to blame, and cynicism knows no bounds, they say that we are the culprits because it happens here...”

Commander Chávez assured that the blame lies with Colombia, “which has not been able to put an end to drug trafficking either with Plan Colombia or with anything. Now they say that we are a Narco-State. They are the Narco-State; that's the truth buddy, and we've done it, look, we've swallowed nails, we've swallowed sand to have a relationship with Colombia, which has been traumatic, and not only with us, Colombia has problems with Nicaragua, Colombia has problems with Ecuador, with all its neighbors, Colombia has a problem. Isn't Colombia going to have an aggressive attitude from an aggressive state? Paramilitarism is still alive even though they say they eliminated it. A lie! The Yankees in there and now more.”

The Bolivarian leader stressed that the Colombian government at this time had Israeli planes, and they have their pilots who “bomb gases and kill children every time they send them, they have no scruples, they are nothing but mercenaries, the Yankees and the Israelis are there and they say that here there are terrorist cells from Hezbollah that are preparing for aggression, well that it doesn't occur to them because they are going to get here with us, the sons of Bolívar, willing to defend this land, this holy land, this mother earth”.