- Colombia’s Largest University Shuts Down Amid Workers’
Strike<http://colombiareports.co/national-university-workers-strike-take-15-buildings-guards/>
   -
   Colombia Army Discover Underground FARC
Camp<http://colombiareports.co/colombia-army-discover-underground-farc-camp/>
   -
   Humanitarian Mission On Its Way To Pick Up Canadian ELN
Hostage<http://colombiareports.co/humanitarian-mission-way-retrive-kidnapped-canadian-mining-executive-eln/>
   -
   Colombia Challenges ICC Over Possible Amnesty For
FARC<http://colombiareports.co/colombia-challenges-icc-possible-amnesty-farc/>
   -
   US Asks Colombia To Extradite Suspects Implicated In DEA Agent’s
Murder<http://colombiareports.co/us-asks-colombia-extradite-suspects-implicated-dea-agents-murder/>
   -
   Government Agrees To Talks With Striking Farmers As 4th Fatality Is
   
Mourned<http://colombiareports.co/colombia-striking-farmers-and-government-agree-to-talks/>


http://colombiareports.co/alleged-assassination-attempt-venezuela-president-foiled/

Venezuela arrest 2 Colombians over Maduro assassination plotposted by Charlie
de Rivaz <http://yavamonos.wordpress.com/>
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Two Colombians allegedly planning to assassinate Venezuela President
Nicolas Maduro have been arrested in Venezuela, authorities from that
country said Monday.

The Venezuelan government announced the arrest on Monday after “checking
the identity of the assassins with Colombia police.”

Víctor Joan Gueche Mosquera and Erick Leonardo Huerta Ríos were captured on
August 15th on the Panamericana highway in Venezuela.

Authorities said that the suspects were found with two firearms equipped
with cartridges and laser sights, a photo of Maduro and the president of
the National Assembly, as well as 10 Venezuela army uniforms.

According to Venezuelan Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez, the plot is
part of “an international conspiracy that is trying, through violent means,
to destabilize our country by taking the life of the President or, if
unsuccessful, the president of the National Assembly.”

The minister recently accused former Colombia president Alvaro Uribe of
being behind a plot to assassinate Maduro.

*MORE:* Uribe again accused of plotting to assassinate Venezuelan
president<http://colombiareports.co/uribe-accused-of-plotting-to-assassinate-venezualan-president/>

Torres accused Uribe of twice meeting with the former interim president of
Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, a delegation sent by infamous Venezuelan
terrorist Luis Posada, an active Colombian state official, and a CIA agent.

According to Torres, the aim of these meetings – allegedly held in April in
both Miami, Florida, and Bogota – was “to make contact with the right-wing
Venezuelan [opposition] and plan these destabilizing actions.”

In May, Maduro himself accused Uribe of being a “murderer” and of using
paramilitary groups to try to kill him. He has also accused Uribe of
plotting with Venezuela opposition leader Henrique Capriles; Uribe denies
ever having met him.

*MORE:* Venezuela claims capture of ‘Colombian
paramilitaries’<http://colombiareports.co/venezuela-claims-capture-of-colombian-paramilitaries/>
Sources

   - Detienen Sicarios Con Órdenes De Asesinar Al Presidente Nicolás
Maduro<http://www.telesurtv.net/articulos/2013/08/26/detienen-a-dos-colombianos-en-venezuela-con-presuntos-planes-de-asesinar-al-presidente-nicolas-maduro-2040.html>
    (Telesur)
   - Ministro Revela Identidad De Quienes Planean Asesinato Del Presidente
   
Venezolano<http://colombiareports.co/alleged-assassination-attempt-venezuela-president-foiled/Ministro%20revela%20identidad%20de%20quienes%20planean%20asesinato%20del%20presidente%20venezolano>
    (Telesur)
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   - Colombian secret police snatch TUC week guest
   Monday 26 August 2013
   by Richard Bagley
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   Fears grew today over the fate of a top Colombian trade unionist
   snatched by secret police two weeks before he was due to address the TUC
   Congress in Bournemouth.

   Solidarity activists were waiting for news on the fate of agricultural
   workers union Fensuagro vice-president Huber Ballesteros who was detained
   for "rebellion" by intelligence officers in the capital Bogota.

   Agents for the right-wing government swooped at 3.30pm local time on
   Sunday, hours before he was scheduled to visit the British embassy for a
   visa to attend the annual trade union parliament.

   His whereabouts were unknown today.

   Mr Ballesteros, a national organiser for social justice movement the
   Patriotic March, had been forced to travel with guards due to repeated
   death threats.

   He is one of the driving forces behind huge rolling strikes that have
   gripped Colombia in the past week.

   TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady demanded his release.

   She branded his detention "on the catch-all charge of 'rebellion,' used
   to imprison countless trade unionists without charge over the years, is a
   sign that little has changed in Colombia."

   The timing of his arrest, "as a strike wave grows and Huber is due to
   travel abroad to win international support, is nothing short of
   predictable," Ms O'Grady said.

   The protests reflect the anger over the effects of right-wing economic
   policies including a free trade deal with the EU that came into force on
   August 1.

   President Juan Manuel Santos has publicly shrugged off the strikes but
   the police crackdown has been brutal.

   Around 200 protesters have been arrested and 100 injured in the past
   week.

   Blockades and walkouts that began on August 19 among agricultural
   workers have since spread to the health, transport, mining, energy and oil
   sectors.

   Teaching unions were set to meet today to discuss joining the industrial
   action.

   Justice for Colombia's Mariela Kohon said Mr Ballesteros's arrest was
   "an act of intimidation against the strikers."

   She said: "What we fear is that this is the start of a witch-hunt of all
   the leaders of the opposition and the trade union movement."

   Ms Kohon said the campaigning group would be raising the issue at "the
   highest level" in Britain, which is a key backer of the country's military.

   If you appreciated this article then please consider donating to the
   Morning Star's Fighting
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