Politics
A group of 37 Colombians, who were deported from Venezuela for allegedly being members of a paramilitary group that attempted to assassinate President Hugo Chávez, complained of mistreatment. The Colombians, some of them considered as illegal aliens in Venezuela, were arrested by members of the Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services (Disip), which is the intelligence police in Venezuela, from January 27 to Friday, March 6. They were accused of forging a plot to assassinate Chávez.

One of the deportees complained to Colombian newspaper La Opinión, published in the city of Cúcuta, that they were beaten in the house where they lived in Caracas. "They told us that we were there to kill President Chávez", EFE reported. "We were locked in a room. They did not allow us to make phone calls. The food was a mess." The fact was reported when a Colombian national learned about the detention of his fellow citizens.