Venezuelan opposition leader sued in Colombia

[Catherina]

8. It appears that the original case is about a Uribe plot to oust President Santos

by forcing his resignation. Those are treason and conspiracy charges you brought up.

That may shed some light on why President Santos refused to meet with the Venezuelan opposition, led by Maria Corina Machado, when they went to Colombia last week.

The origin of the complaint is based on the controversial meeting that the former president had last November 25, 2011 at the Hotel Dann Carlton in Bogota with businessmen of the opposition to the government of Hugo Chavez, and in which his words were considered by some observers as a clear incitement to rebel against President Juan Manuel Santos.

Jimenez claimed that the meeting was just a first move of something he considers a plot to overthrow the President Juan Manuel Santos.

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(Jimenez "Yes, I was very aware of the video the journalist Jaime Moreno of CM& had and which was finally broadcast by the news, where they listened to former President Uribe invited Venezuelan traders and producers not to buy Colombian products to empty out the Venezuelan supermarket shelves and use that to campaign against Hugo Chavez. (...) I was profiling Enrique Capriles, but the bottom line is that all this was to break the harmony between the Colombian government and Chavez.

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