Politics
Colombian authorities found in their country a suspected member of Venezuelan intelligence services who was illegally in their territory. The Venezuelan colonel was deported to Caracas.

According to Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, Jesús Lugo Mendoza, a retired Army coronel, who is an expert in intelligence affairs and was a military attaché in the Venezuelan embassy in Bogotá from 2004 to 2007, was found having an illegal status in Colombia.

Mendoza was deported to Caracas several weeks ago and he may not return to Colombia for four years.

Another Venezuelan official was reportedly caught while he was after Pedro Carmona Estanga, who was president of the de facto government in Venezuela on April 12, 2002.

Meanwhile, a Venezuelan national guard was expelled from Colombia last Saturday.