The Chief of State did not realise his customary Aló program, President due to the internal elections of the PSUV. After to deposit his vote, the agent chief executive offered declarations in which he discarded any possibility of dialogue and mediation of third parties. “We did not accept mediations, the problem is one only”.

Chávez followed with its rhetoric against Colombia and the USA after to vote in the election of delegates to the congress of the PSUV. Photo presses Presidential

“When one is sovereignty we did not discuss anything, the sovereignty does not discuss ourselves. There is nothing what to discuss”, affirmed Chávez after to vote in the internal elections of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).

“We did not accept mediations, the problem is one only: The United States, if it wants practical solutions, that yanquis' of Colombia retires `bases”, insisted the agent chief executive.

Friday, the spokesman of the Department of American State, Ian Kelly, called to Bogota and Caracas “to lower the level of the rhetoric” and indicated the disposition of their country to mediate in the conflict, caused by a military agreement between Colombia and the United States that Chávez considers a “threat” for Venezuela and all the region.

“We called to the parts to lower the level of the rhetoric and to sit down again to produce practical approaches that they solve the conflict and they reduce the tension”, raised Kelly.

“He is something that must solve countries both, clearly, but the United States is interested in promoting the stability and the dialogue”, added.

“A practical, very practical thing: they retire the bases of Colombia”, insisted Chávez. “That is what must do (the United States). He is very practitioner”, reiterated. (With AFP/MINCI information)

“Revolutionary” defeat

“Their declarations are provoking but useless. I do not see what Chávez scene could enter a war with Colombia. Not only it would be defeated but it would lose the power”, it expressed the French political expert Pascal Boniface, director of the private Institute of International and Strategic Relations of Paris.

In a Latin American hypothesis military, “United States and other countries they would go to help Colombia. When somebody causes as Chávez does, the best thing is not to do case to him. If we do case to him we are making him a favor”, it assured Boniface.

It rescued in favor of the Venezuelan governor who, although she can irritate by its behavior and its provocations, still continues itself deciding the luck of the democracy by means of the elections in Venezuela. (AFP)

Neogranadino silence
The president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, today decided to keep silence in front of the recent declarations from his homologous one, Hugo Chavez, within the framework of the critical bilateral tension.

Uribe headed a Security Council in the city of Barrancabermeja, where it took care of subjects local and several times it eluded the questions of the journalists on the declarations of Chávez, that east Saturday called “gangster” and leader of “a treasonous” government. (DPA)