Colombia denuncia escandalosos nexos de Correa y Chávez con las FARC

SiV says on Mar 2, 2008, 21:39:

My computer's slow tonight for some reason, so I couldn't see the video.

I'd be pretty shocked if Correa had a cordial relationship with the Farc. I didn't think he was that hard-line, though I imagine as head of state, he would have some communication channels open with the guerrilla

Stultórum númere infinitum est.

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juancegomez says on Mar 2, 2008, 21:43:

The two documents read by General Naranjo are online at EL TIEMPO in PDF format. They seem to be printed transcripts, not the original information though.

The news in English:

Colombia says FARC documents show Correa ties
Reuters
By Patrick Markey Reuters - 49 minutes ago

BOGOTA (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 fuelled tensions between Washington ally Colombia and neighbours 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."

But Ecuador's Interior Minister Fernando Bustamante dismissed the accusations as false and Venezuela called the announcement an attempted smear campaign against Correa, an ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

"We are not going to accept such a thing," Bustamante said. "It is very easy to say something based on evidence that has not been scrutinized publicly or internationally."

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has often accused the FARC of using Venezuelan and Ecuadorean territory as safe havens from military attacks. His neighbours say Colombia fails to stop violent spillover from its four-decade conflict.

Naranjo said one document revealed an offer by the Ecuadorean government to transfer police and army commanders in the area who proved hostile to the FARC.

The raid has sparked a diplomatic crisis, with Ecuador and Venezuela sending troops to their frontiers with Colombia. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said a similar raid on his country would be a declaration of war.

The FARC began as a socialist-inspired army in the 1960s but U.S. and EU officials say it is now engaged in cocaine trafficking. Rebels have held scores of hostages for years, including French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and three American contract workers.

Aided by billions of dollars in U.S. funds, Uribe has driven back the FARC to remoter areas and violence and bombings associated with Latin America's oldest insurgency has dropped sharply.

(Additional reporting by Alonso Soto in Quito, editing by Jackie Frank)

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080303/tpl-uk-colombia-ecuador-81f3b62...

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robi666 says on Mar 2, 2008, 22:03:

http://www.eltiempo.com/conflicto/noticias/ARTICULO-WEB-NOTA_INTERIOR-...

Yes, I had already noticed and posted it on another thread.
General Naranjo could have waited a day or two. To study better the documents and the next move with Uribe.
The atmosphere is explosive, to say the least...

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Sam Salmon says on Mar 2, 2008, 22:40:

If the Colombian govt wanted to really sandbag Correa they'd put all the documentation online-it would hurt him badly if every Ecuadoran with net access could read the documents for themselves.

' a la orden!'

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robi666 says on Mar 3, 2008, 02:39:

The documents are online.
http://www.eltiempo.com/conflicto/noticias/ARCHIVO/ARCHIVO-3983273-0.p...
http://www.eltiempo.com/conflicto/noticias/ARCHIVO/ARCHIVO-3983275-0.p...

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