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== Events == On 13 December 2004, [[Rodrigo Granda]], a member (the "foreign minister") of the [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia]] (''Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia'', or "FARC"), was captured by individual Venezuelan officials in [[Caracas]], Venezuela, and transferred to [[Cúcuta]], Colombia (a [[Norte de Santander Department|departmental capital]] on the two nations' common border), where he was arrested by the Colombian authorities on 14 December. Granda had been an uninvited attendant to the Second Bolivarian People's Congress in Caracas, an international gathering of supporters of the [[Bolivarian Revolution]] in Venezuela.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.eldiplo.org/dossier.php3?numero=73&dossier=068 |title=CONMOCIONES EN AMÉRICA DEL SUR|date=February 2005|access-date=1 April 2006 |archive-date=13 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313002252/http://www.eldiplo.org/dossier.php3?numero=73&dossier=068 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.elabedul.net/Articulos/Reserva/comunicado_del_congreso.php | title=Comunicado del Congreso Bolivariano de los pueblos | date=20 August 2019 }}</ref> Colombia admitted that it offered and paid a reward for Granda's capture, although it initially denied that he had been captured in Caracas and transported to Cúcuta, only stating that he had been officially arrested by authorities in Cúcuta. The FARC issued a statement claiming that the Venezuelan state should have protected Granda during his visit, and Granda's lawyer said that Granda held dual Venezuelan and Colombian citizenship. The Venezuelan interior ministry dismissed the FARC's claims, stated that Granda's Venezuelan identification card had been obtained through the use of forged documents and, in addition, that Venezuela had been unaware of Granda's visit and therefore had never decided for or against protecting him. Venezuelan authorities stated that their country would have cooperated with Colombian authorities through official channels, but rejected what they considered an undue violation of their sovereignty.
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