The governments of Ecuador and Venezuela have recalled their ambassadors from Columbia and have moved troops to the border in a clear display of anger over reported incidents of Columbian military attacking terrorists inside Ecuador’s border.
In a televised address, Correa called a raid by Colombian national police and air force one day earlier a “massacre” that killed civilians.
The strike at dawn Saturday killed two leading figures in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist movement that has fought a guerrilla war against the country’s government for some 40 years. One of the dead was FARC’s second-in-command, Luis Edgar Devia Silva, known as “Raul Reyes.”
The United States is in a sticky situation here, as Columbia is an ally. But this sounds very much like Venezuela and Ecuador are supporting the FARC terrorists and are trying very hard to get on the “Axis of Evil” list.
We know Chavez is a leftist fascist and Correa seems to be a great understudy - even for a graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana.
UPDATE: Documents reportedly found in a FARC camp in Ecuador implicate Correa.
BOGOTA, March 2 (Reuters) - Colombia said on Sunday documents found in a camp in Ecuador where Colombian troops killed a top guerrilla boss showed ties between the FARC rebels and Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, including contacts about political proposals and local military commanders.
FARC rebel commander Raul Reyes was killed inside Ecuador in an army operation that has fueled tensions between Washington ally Colombia and neighbors Venezuela and Ecuador, where leftist leaders are fiercely opposed to U.S. proposals. Police Commander Gen. Oscar Naranjo said documents found in computers belonging to Reyes showed contacts between a Correa government minister, Gustavo Larrea, and the FARC commander to discuss political proposals and projects on the frontier. “The questions raised by these documents need concrete answers,” Naranjo said. “What is the state of relations between Ecuador’s government and a terrorist group like the FARC.”
UPDATE 2: Looks like those computer files Columbia found in Ecuador, after killing the FARC chief, don’t put Hugo Chavez in very good light either.
March 3 (Bloomberg) — Colombia’s police chief Oscar Naranjo said documents from the computer of a guerrilla leader killed last weekend in Ecuador show links to Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez.
The documents on the computer of Raul Reyes, the second in command of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, indicate that Venezuela provided the guerrillas with at least $300 million and would help Chavez in the event of a U.S. attack on Venezuela.
So, for all you Hugo-lovers out there, it appears at least that your boy is a sponsor of terrorism.
UPDATE 3: Did you see the part where FARC was trying to buy 110 lbs of uranium?
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Obviously “Hugo” supports these those violent rebels and their terrorist style tactics. Who’s the evil force at work here?
Good job, Hugo, getting a couple of prisoners released by those scumbags. Just a few hundred more to go! At this rate, they might all be free before they die of old age! LOL Nice one Chavez I guess you can go add that to your list of “great accomplishments” now huh? He should take some of that oil money to see if he can fix up his clown face to be a little less silly looking — that would be a true accomplishment.
With the manpower Equador and Venezuela could throw at us over in Columbia, President Bush should be proud of himself for wasting the vast majority of our military manpower on a war in Iraq that never should have been. We can’t even send adequate numbers of troops to Afghanistan. How are we supposed to now enter, as we should, to help Columbia so close to our homeland.
President Bush should be proud of himself that we have not had another terrorist attack in America, since 9/11.
To answer your question, we spend more money on our Military. The reason we are in this “too small army” mess to begin with is a bunch of liberal moon bats saying we don’t need a large standing army and that the national guard and reserve will be plenty.
Well… at least, we Colombians are happy that the rest of the world is supporting us, and not our CRAZY neighbors who, by the way, have not realized YET that communism didn’t work anywhere else!