The Colombian Foreign Ministry said in a communique that it " has decided to grant diplomatic asylum " to Carmona, who slipped away from house arrest in Caracas on Thursday and fled into the residence of the Colombian ambassador in the Venezuelan capital.
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The Colombian Foreign Ministry said in a communique that it " has decided to grant diplomatic asylum " to Carmona, who slipped away from house arrest in Caracas on Thursday and fled into the residence of the Colombian ambassador in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
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In 1980, together with Cardinal Ra�l Silva Henr�quez, he tried without success to get Pinochet to allow the return of certain political exiles, and in 1984 he obtained, at the cost of a dispute between the Holy See and the military government of Chile, safe conduct for four members of the Revolutionary Left Movement, who had sought diplomatic asylum in the nunciature, to leave for Ecuador.
