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April 22nd, 2017 
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nsnbc : Bilateral relations between Colombia and Venezuela deteriorated further on Thursday when Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos repeated that the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela had failed and Venezuelan President Juan Manuel Santos responded by claiming Colombia plans to massacre leaders of the demobilizing and disarming FARC.
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Santos and Maduro didn’t mince words when they slugged it out in a duel of rhetoric that could prompt some to think “Kindergarden – my censored is bigger than your censored”. The problem is, they are both head of state, in neighboring countries – in troubled neighboring countries – both of them with external factors contributing to their internal conflicts. A perfect storm where small incidents could have unintended consequences which could be difficult to control.
Santos had previously commented on the severe economic crisis in Venezuela and an increasingly authoritarian socialist government saying that the Bolivarian Revolution had failed. On Thursday he repeated that statement in the light of protests organized by the opposition Roundtable of Democratic Unity (MUD) and increasingly violent confrontations.
Faced with increased opposition, the socialist PSUV administration, earlier this year, began implementing a cohort of measures that can best be described as “borderline fascist or totalitarian”.
Maduro responded to Santos’ statement by returning fire in the for of a rhetoric barrage. Maduro claimed “Colombia is a failed state”. He added that his government in Caracas would “reveal the whole truth about the peace process” and claimed “They are preparing a massacre of FARC leaders who signed peace” (the peace accord that ended 52 years of armed conflict between the State and that Recolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army / FARC-EP. Maduro also underpinned that Venezuela has taken in some 5.6 million Colombian s who were “fleeing from war, from paramilitaries, from the oligarchy, from hunger, from the lack of opportunities, from unemployment.
A/N – nsnbc 21.04.2017
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2017/04/21/colombias-santos-and-venezuelas-maduro-slug-it-out/
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