Thursday, April 27, 2017

Venezuela and Colombia at odds over soldiers’ asylum request

Colombia is considering giving refugee status to three military officials from Venezuela the neighboring country wants to try for desertion. The desertion and subsequent asylum request in Bogota further increases tensions between Colombia and Venezuela, that finds itself increasingly isolated as it faces a major political crisis. While Venezuela’s foreign minister, Delcy Rodriguez, asked her Colombian counterpart Maria Angela Holguin through Venezuelan media not to accept the asylum request, but to no avail. More…




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