Latinnews Daily - 12 August 2003

José Rangel, Venezuela's vice president, dismissed the story that he had ordered a mission to rescue an ill leader of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación de Colombia (Farc) last year. He said that the accusation, which is based on statements by a former Venezuelan officer, had been cooked up by the Colombian press. Rangel said that he had never met Lieutenant Moisés Boyer Riobueno, who told the Colombian press that he had been ordered by Rangel to extract Raúl Reyes, the ill Farc leader, from an airstrip in Colombia.

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