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Puerto Vallarta News NetworkNews from Around the Americas | December 2007 

Oliver Stone Pleased to Observe Humanitarian Operation
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Oliver Stone
Santo Domingo, Venezuela - US filmmaker, Oliver Stone, expressed his satisfaction to be a part of the group to verify the delivery to Venezuela of three persons in the hands of the Colombian insurgency.

Stone made declarations to the press from the Santo Domingo airport landing strip where, minutes before some of the helicopters involved in the humanitarian operation left for the Colombian city of Villavicencio.

The director of Platoon and winner of three Oscars announced that he was in Venezuela to make a documentary on Latin America and it allowed him the opportunity to observe the rescue.

He said he was proud to participate as a witness of the return of former Colombian vice presidential candidate, Clara Rojas, her son Emmanuel and former congresswoman, Consuelo Gonzalez.

The Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces announced the liberation of these persons in a unilateral gesture to make amends to president Hugo Chavez for the attitude of the government to cancel his mediation in a humanitarian agreement.

Chavez, who is verifying the operation, pointed out that if Alvaro Uribe had not cut off negotiations, at this time there would be a greater list of freed persons and expressed his willingness to use his prestige to obtain an exchange of prisoners between the government and the guerrilla.



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