Posted on 05/23/2002 8:27:58 PM PDT by HAL9000
Pedro Carmona requires asylum of the embassy of Colombia (official)
Thursday May 23, 2002 - 22h26 GMT
CARACAS, May 23 (AFP) - the former owner of the owners and putschist vénézuélien Pedro Carmona requested Thursday asylum from the Embassy from Colombia in Caracas, announced the Foreign Minister vénézuélien Luis Alfonso Davila.
Padro Carmona had been with the head of a short coup d'etat aiming at reversing president Hugo Chavez in April.
"I discussed with the Foreign Minister Colombia Hernan Fernandez de Soto which informed me officially that Mr. Pedro Carmona requested the political asylum and trouvce currently in the embassy from Colombia in Caracas", Mr. Davila with the chain of television Globo Vision declared.
In Bogota, the Colombian Foreign Minister confirmed information and added that "Pedro Carmona remains under diplomatic protection in the embassy from Colombia in Caracas".
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