Venezuelan opposition leader sued in Colombia

[Catherina]

3. Some more details. I've been researching this.

Attorney Callejas Aurelio Jimenez filed, under Fiscal law 174, a complaint (denunciation) against Venezuela's former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles in a court case against ex-president Uribe, on charges of undermining national integrity, conspiracy to crimes and obstruction of justice.

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According to lawyer Jimenez Callejas, everything goes back to a meeting on November 25, 2011 at the Hotel Dann Carlton, Bogota, where planning allegedly took place so that Venezuelan industrial and importer business would not buy products Colombian products in order to empty supermarket shelves in Caracas.

"Capriles met (with Uribe) and not only undermined Colombia's national integrity but Venezuela's as well, because both countries experience shortages as a result," said the lawyer.

According to the complainant, the alleged action severely impaired businesses in the border area.

"We can not let the economy go belly up, because some people use these methods as an electoral weapon," he said.

http://www.eluniversal.com.co/cartagena/nacional/denuncian-henrique-capriles-por-reunion-con-alvaro-uribe-velez-119791

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So Uribe immediately springs into action and tweets "I've never even met Capriles".

"Me denuncian por reunión nunca realizada con Candidato Capriles, a quién no conozco, pero con quien espero dialogar en algún momento" (I've been denounced for a meeting that never took place with Candidate Capriles , whom I don't know but hope to dialogue with some day.)

Little did he know, cameras exist and this photo was already floating around on the web.


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In 2011, several Colombian journalists witnessed Alvaro Uribe getting out of his car and going to a meeting with the Venezuelan opposition in the Bogota hotel Dann Carlton. One journalist (Jaime Moreno) managed to get a tape of the meeting from the hotel's security chief, who later denied giving it to him after the scandal erupted. Colombian TV CM& broadcast 3 seconds of the tape, minus audio, showing Uribe meeting with the Venezuelan opposition. Uribe went ballistic, threatened to sue for infringement of "intellectual property rights" for '[link:for http://www.caracol.com.co/noticias/actualidad/anuncian-proceso-a-periodista-que-divulgo-grabacion-de-uribe-con-opositores-venezolanos/20111201/nota/1586593.aspx |wrongfully stealing frames from a private meeting which was recorded by security cameras]' using his foundation Primero Colombia (he's its President). The Colombian Association of Journalists immediately denounced Uribe's false claim of video theft and journalist was Jaime Moreno was hastily transferred to New York. CM& News has proof that there was no theft.

If the case isn't fairly dealt with in Colombia, Attorney Callejas Aurelio Jimenez will take it to Human Rights Watch and to the UN.

This is at least the third time that Uribe is known to have met with the Venezuelan Opposition. Here is a video of Uribe meeting with Leopoldo Lopez in 2011

This has been all over Colombian news since 2011. It's quite strange that the US press hasn't touched the story.

RT Spanish had a segment about this

I'm still researching this.