“My view is that, if environmentalists aren’t willing to engage with big business, which are among the most powerful forces in the modern world, it won’t be possible to solve the world’s environmental problems.” — Jared Diamond’s attitude regarding how to go about changing the world…in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Both José Antonio Colina and Germán Rodolfo Varela are fugitives from justice in Venezuela. The two ex-lieutenants from the Venezuelan military allegedly bombed the diplomatic missions of Colombia and Spain in Caracas in 2003.

They fled to Miami shortly after the bombing, and –recently– they were released from custody in the U.S. Venezuelan authorities had presented a request for preventative detention in 2004, but the U.S. chose to only take “immigrant detainer” action against them.
From the Venezuelan Embassy:

“On March 16, 2004, Venezuela presented formal extradition requests to the United States Department of State. Rather than abide by its obligations under the international treaties and conventions that mandate the detention and extradition of the two accused terrorists, the United States released them from immigration custody on Friday, April 28 with orders of supervised release from the Immigration Customs and Enforcement Agency (ICE) of the United States.”

Both José Antonio Colina

As threats to the community AND “fugitives from justice,” the two –my contacts at the Embassy tell me– are likely to abscond from ICE supervised release.

Again, directly from official statements of The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela :

“It is well settled law that extradition proceedings take precedence over immigration matters. Venezuela once again calls upon the United States Government not to shelter their terrorists of choice. All terrorists are criminals and ought to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”

And:

“The United States is obligated to immediately detain Lt. Colina and Lt. Varela on the extradition detainers filed by Venezuela and to commence extradition proceedings against them, pursuant to international treaties and conventions to which the United States and Venezuela are signing parties.”

Germán Rodolfo Varela

This is like the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute (http://mcli.org/) whistling in the wind…trying to get the U.S. to honor its international legal obligations vis-à-vis Abu Ghraib; attempting to deal with the fact that the U.S. official stance is that they don’t have to account for diddley there ‘cause the place is not on U.S. soil.

Like thinking that severe U.S. abominations in any form can be addressed through legal redress.
We’d be better off praying.

Richard Oxman, rmoxman@yahoo.com, posts his most updated versions of articles at www.oxtogrind.org. He is on his knees and off-color in Los Gatos, California, not paying out heartbeats before swine.

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