VHeadline commentarist Arthur Shaw writes: Felipe Mujica, the grand "coordinator" of some imperialist front which calls itself the International Committee of the Democratic Unified Panel,announced on Friday November 20, 2009, proposals that allegedly the bourgeois-led opposition in Venezuela presents "to address the conflict between Colombia and Venezuela."

The key proposal of this worthless 'United Panel' -- as reported by the worthless bourgeois media --  is a "a non-aggression bilateral pact must be negotiated and agreed upon by the two countries with agreed international verification mechanisms."

As for "non-aggression," the Colombian dictatorship has repeatedly stated that it will invade other countries if it detects a threat on the territory of other countries which the Colombia dictatorship finds offensive.

• The Colombian dictatorship naturally doesn't recognize the right of other countries to invade Colombia if other countries detect a threat on Colombian territory that is offensive to other countries.

Colombian territory is full of threats to other countries. The Colombian dictatorship gave an example of this two-faced policy when it invaded Ecuador on March 1, 2008. When the Colombian Defense Minister touted this two-faced policy after the aggression against Ecuador, he explained that Colombia does not consider an invasion of another country to remove a threat to be an act of aggression. If this is the case, then a "non-aggression bilateral pact" is meaningless except to the pro-imperialist clowns who perform in the farce called the International Committee of the Democratic Unified Panel.

As for a "bilateral pact," what good is a pact if a key party or the key party is left out of the pact. The crisis is immediately between the Venezuelan Government, the imperialist regime in Washington, and the Colombian dictatorship.

Why does the 'United Panel' propose a "bilateral pact" when three parties are immediately involved?

The manifest purpose of the escalated military presence of the US imperialists in Colombia is to increase the capabilities of the Colombia to invade other countries and to embolden this despicable dictatorship to invade other countries more often.

This 'United Panel' and its repellent "coordinator" apologize for past aggressions by the Colombian dictatorship and promote fresh aggressions.

Arthur Shaw
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