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SUBJECT: Venezuela Deports Three Fugitives, Justice Minister Asks for 
Reciprocity 
 
REF: 10 CARACAS 53 
 
CLASSIFIED BY: DUDDY, AMBASSADOR, DOS, AMB; REASON: 1.4(C), (D) 
 
¶1.        (C) Summary:  On February 2, the Venezuelan government 
(GBRV) deported U.S. fugitive Salomon "Big Daddy" Camacho, as well 
as two fugitives wanted by France and Colombia.  Minister of 
Justice El-Aissami told PolOff and Legatt that he had been 
instructed by President Chavez to return these fugitives as quickly 
as possible and hoped for reciprocity.  During the televised 
portion of the event, El-Aissami charged the United States with 
harboring "terrorists, fugitive bankers and murderers."  Camacho's 
deportation is the third deportation of a fugitive to the United 
States since October 2009.  End Summary. 
 
 
 
¶2.        (C) On February 2, the GBRV deported Salomon "Big Daddy" 
Camacho Mora, a Colombian citizen and major drug trafficker wanted 
by the United States.  It also deported Jean Marie Bonnamy and 
Oscar Ospina Pacheco to France and Colombia, respectively, for 
prosecution on drug-related charges.  At the event, which took 
place at the headquarters of the Bolivarian National Intelligence 
Service (SEBIN, formerly DISIP), Deputy Director of the Scientific, 
Penal and Criminal Investigations Corps (CICPC) Alvis Pinto Guedes 
told Legatt and Poloff that "deportations are a quick 
administrative solution.  Extraditions take too long, you can spend 
months exchanging letters rogatory." 
 
 
 
¶3.        (C)  In a brief private conversation with French and U.S. 
embassy officers, Minister of Interior and Justice Tarek 
El-Aissami, accompanied by SEBIN Director Miguel Rodriguez Torres, 
National Anti-Drug Office (ONA) Director Nestor Reverol, CICPC 
Director Wilmer Flores Trocel, and Libertador borough Police Chief 
Freddy Villaverde, said that "President Chavez has instructed me to 
be expeditious so these men can face justice. Venezuela is 
complying with international treaties and conventions and we expect 
reciprocity." 
 
 
 
¶4.       (SBU) During the televised portion of the event, 
El-Aissami said, "I say, respectfully, to the representative of the 
United States Embassy, I wish that our government and institutions 
could count on the clarity, responsibility and transparency that 
the government of Hugo Chavez shows."   El-Aissami continued, "We 
have requested the extradition of fugitive bankers, terrorist 
assassins like Luis Posada Carriles, but the United States has not 
made these criminals face Venezuelan justice. . . . They accuse 
President Chavez of not cooperating, of being an obstacle, but we 
know these are campaigns of calumny to impugn the results of this 
government." 
 
 
 
¶5.       (C)  Comment:  Camacho's deportation, less than 30 days 
after his capture, is the third deportation of a drug trafficker to 
the United States since October 2009.  End Comment. 
DUDDY