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FARC says: Uribe kidnapped Emmanuel (no, I'm not joking)

In other words, the boy is, almost without doubt, indeed Emmanuel.

As for FARC..."no comment" says it all.

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Enero 4 de 2007

Comunicado

1. Experto en cortinas de humo, el gobierno narco-paramilitar de Uribe Vélez, previa consulta a su amo en Washington, ha resuelto secuestrar en Bogotá al niño Emmanuel con el infeliz propósito de sabotear su entrega, la de su madre Clara Rojas y Consuelo González de Perdomo, al Presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez.

2. Con este nuevo hecho, que se suma a la intensificación de los operativos bélicos en el área, Uribe apunta a desactivar la trascendental gestión humanitaria del Presidente Chávez, sembrando la desconfianza entre los delegados internacionales y atravesando nuevos obstáculos y campañas mediáticas a una decisión unilateral que expresa la voluntad política de las FARC de sacar adelante el canje de prisioneros. Lo reiteramos en esta ocasión: Uribe no está programado por los gringos, ni para el canje humanitario, ni para la paz.

3. La opinión pública nacional e internacional entiende muy bien que Emmanuel no podía estar en medio de las operaciones bélicas del Plan Patriota, de los bombardeos y los combates, la movilidad permanente y las contingencias de la selva. Por eso este niño, de padre guerrillero, había sido ubicado en Bogotá bajo el cuidado de personas honradas mientras se firmaba el acuerdo humanitario. Uribe, que ya secuestró en la capital las pruebas de vida que iban con destino al Presidente Chávez, secuestra ahora a Emmanuel. Así como capturó y encarceló a los correos humanitarios, se apresta ahora a proceder de igual manera con las personas encargadas de atender al niño. Emmanuel iba a ser entregado, junto con su madre, al Presidente Chávez de Venezuela.

4. Con el gobierno de Uribe, que obstinadamente se ha negado a despejar Pradera y Florida para hablar de acuerdo humanitario, no hemos asumido ningún compromiso para que ahora ande propalando que estamos incumpliendo. Por principio, por moral y ética revolucionaria, FARC no utiliza como método la tortura y mucho menos si se trata de niños. Los verdaderos torturadores están en el ejército, las fuerzas policiales, y en los agentes del gobierno narco-paramilitar que se tomó el Palacio de Nariño.

5. El proceso de liberación de Clara Rojas y Consuelo González de Perdomo, seguirá su curso, tal como lo hemos ofrecido al gobierno de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela. Esa es la determinación de las FARC. Para ello no le estamos pidiendo al señor Uribe ningún corredor de seguridad; lo que hemos reiterado, y lo ratificamos, es la necesidad del despeje militar de Pradera y Florida para proceder de inmediato a verificar y realizar el primer encuentro para convenir el canje humanitario, que en todo caso debe ser con el acompañamiento de la comunidad internacional.

6. Al Presidente Chávez, por encima de estas vicisitudes, le pedimos mantener viva la esperanza del canje a través de su consecuente compromiso humanitario, el cual consideramos paso necesario hacia la búsqueda de una solución política y diplomática al conflicto social y armado que vive Colombia.

Secretariado del Estado Mayor Central de las FARC
Montañas de Colombia, enero 2 de 2008

http://www.abpnoticias.com/boletin_temporal/contenido/comunicados/258....

By juancegomez on Jan 4, 2008, 18:03 in Politics & the war.

LilaM says on Jan 4, 2008, 18:04:

Que tal estos igualados!!!

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." Ed. Cunningham

robi666 says on Jan 4, 2008, 18:27:

i don't know if to cry or laugh...

"I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth. A nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present."

famsearch says on Jan 4, 2008, 18:28:

pot calling the kettle black...

dan

LilaM says on Jan 4, 2008, 18:30:

I'm wondering if the countries from Europe and our neighbors in Latin America, believe such a lie!!!

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." Ed. Cunningham

robi666 says on Jan 4, 2008, 18:32:

It is not about believing it: it is just an absurd interpretation of the fact.
They are saying: we have hidden the child and the police has stolen him from us. Like if they (legal forces) has not the duty to do it!

Sr Tertius says on Jan 4, 2008, 18:33:

I said it before: This shit is not serious.

"When the finger points to the moon, the fool looks at the finger" (Chinese proverb)

robi666 says on Jan 4, 2008, 18:37:

Yes T. It is like a Pirandello's novel!

catherine b says on Jan 4, 2008, 19:16:

Farc is truly the lowest of the low.

Mr. Hollywood says on Jan 4, 2008, 20:14:

Wow, that's the most Kafkaesque thing I've ever seen, and I've seen some shit in my time.

athensugadawg says on Jan 4, 2008, 20:45:

Chavez has been amazingly quiet about this whole affair for the past couple of days...looks like the dynamite exploded in his face. This whole affair is like a roulette wheel, place your bets and see where it lands. However, I wonder who in the hell would get off on burning a child with a cigarette???

msaucey says on Jan 4, 2008, 22:16:

You know that Chavez has egg on his face.... I mean, he's been slapped in the face twice in the last 3 months..... If he would have listened to King Carlos, and would Shut Up, then he wouldn't look like such and a$$.....

FARC's are a bunch of idiots and we're probably going to start seeing dead FARC members showing up in some river quite soon after this mess....

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. - CS Lewis

robi666 says on Jan 5, 2008, 03:21:

By the way... how much is Uribe asking to release the child?

podborski says on Jan 5, 2008, 03:27:

anything that makes FARC look so bad can't be serious I guess.

tasco66 says on Jan 5, 2008, 05:18:

I wonder if Oliver Stone and Chavez will call for the immediate release of the boy from Uribe…

Bravo, Presidente Uribe for the perfect operation!

Medellin Traveler says on Jan 5, 2008, 05:52:

Colombia's leftist FARC rebels confirmed Friday that a boy in foster care in Bogota is the son of their hostage Clara Rojas, and vowed their stalled hostage release would go ahead as planned, the Bolivarian News Agency said on its website.

Quoting from a FARC statement, the agency said Emmanuel Rojas, whom the rebels earlier claimed was in their custody, was placed in foster care to protect him from anti-guerrilla operations and the constant displacements the rebels are forced to make.

"That's why the boy, of a guerrilla father, was placed in Bogota under the care of honest people, while a humanitarian agreement was being signed," said the statement read by the Bolivarian News Agency, without specifying the accord.

The statement, dated January 2, came hours after Attorney General Mario Iguaran said DNA samples taken from the boy and relatives of Clara Rojas showed a "very high probability" that the three-year-old boy is indeed her son.

The rebel's statement confirming that the boy in Bogota is Emmanuel appears to give credit to President Alvaro Uribe's accusations this week that FARC had delayed their hostage release because they discovered the boy was not in their custody.

The three-year-old boy, who was said to have been named Emmanuel, was born from an allegedly consensual relationship between Rojas and one of her captors.

The FARC had promised after protracted negotiations to release the boy, his mother and former legislator Consuelo Gonzalez de Perdomo to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez around Christmas time.

But the rebels suspended the operation on Monday alleging that the Colombian military had launched military operations in the jungle region where the handover was due to occur.

In their latest statement, FARC accused Uribe's government of keeping Emmanuel "kidnapped in Bogota ... with the dark purpose of torpedoing his release" and that of his mother and Gonzalez to president Chavez.

Despite these machinations, the rebels added, the release of Rojas and Gonzalez "will go ahead as planned, just as we proposed it to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela."

The rebels also repeated its demand the government demilitarized two townships in southern Colombia where negotiations for a prisoner swap of some 45 rebel hostages for some 500 jailed guerrillas can take place.

Uribe has consistently turned down the request, offering instead a much smaller area that the guerrillas did not accept.

Uribe has denied there had been any anti-guerrilla military operations in the area where hostage release was to take place and said the rebel-born boy was in Bogota at a state-run orphanage of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF), and had been there since July 2006.

The daily El Tiempo reported this week that a man named Jose Gomez, now under a witness protection program, told investigators he had received the little boy from FARC guerrillas in 2005.

Gomez said the rebels threatened to kill him if he did not return the boy by December 30, 2007.

The report said the child suffered health problems and that Gomez took him for treatment at a hospital, where staff suspected child abuse and transferred the boy to child protective services.

Gomez tried to get the boy back ahead of the FARC deadline last month, but by then the case was already in the hands of the district attorney's office which was investigating, based on anonymous phone tips, whether the child was Emmanuel Rojas.

Venezuelan helicopters, meanwhile, continued on stand-by in Villavicencio, Colombia awaiting word to fly into the jungle to pick up the FARC hostages.

Gonzalez and Rojas were snatched in 2001 and 2002 respectively. Rojas was a top aide to Franco-Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who was captured at the same time and continues in rebel hands.

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=209501

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bamacellist says on Jan 5, 2008, 05:58:

Who do you suppose they'd want him released to? Maybe this will become their rallying cry for their announced offensive. A turning point in the history of the Farc... now fighting for the release of hostages and an end to kidnapping.

"The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."

podborski says on Jan 5, 2008, 09:12:

this quote has to hurt some of our loyal readers:

"Though the right-of-center Uribe appeared to have been outsmarted by the FARC's offer -- his hard-line approach to negotiations with the rebels has been harshly criticized by political opponents and relatives of hostages -- he seems to have emerged from the busted hostage release as the only credible figure in the process."

: )

billyb says on Jan 5, 2008, 15:55:

Uribe is demanding that the FARC demilitarize in two departments so he can safely release Emmanuelle. Ortega will send the whole of the Nicaraguan air force (2 Cessnas) to pick him up, with Michael Moore in tow to film it all.

athensugadawg says on Jan 5, 2008, 16:18:

I do not believe you. Two Cessnas combined do not have enough power to become airborne with Michael Moore aboard. Perhaps a hot air balloon is in order...

billyb says on Jan 5, 2008, 16:25:

How 'bout them dawgs? But you are right, they might need that hot air balloon for Moore, an appropriate name for it would be "Chavez II".

Mr. Hollywood says on Jan 5, 2008, 16:49:

I'm told that's actually why Stone was picked to do this dangerous mission. Despite being not half the documentary filmmaker that Moore is, the fuel savings alone were worth the compromise, even to Chavez.

cassini77 says on Jan 6, 2008, 13:48:

Very funny ! I can see that Michael Moore hurts some reactionary yankees very much by saying truth about USA.

Mr. Hollywood says on Jan 6, 2008, 14:13:

Personally, I love Moore. I thought "Sicko" was brilliant.

Tinto (Moderator) says on Jan 6, 2008, 14:23:

Cassini - I'll trade you Michael Moore and Mickey Rourke for Juliette Binoche and Emanuelle Beart, and I'll even throw in Jerry Lewis (if he's still alive).

podborski says on Jan 6, 2008, 17:28:

and when is Alec Baldwin moving to France anyway? Didn't he promise that years ago?

travelingirl says on Jan 6, 2008, 17:28:

I thought it was Canada.

Around her hair she wore a yellow ribbon...

billyb says on Jan 6, 2008, 17:36:

Hope he takes Penn and Stone with him if he ever gets around to keeping his word.

travelingirl says on Jan 6, 2008, 17:37:

agree

Around her hair she wore a yellow ribbon...

podborski says on Jan 7, 2008, 03:13:

and Sarandon and Robbins

actually pretty much all of hollywood but for Arnie, Bruce Willis and Charlton Heston (oh and Tom Selleck too)

travelingirl says on Jan 7, 2008, 03:28:

Do Chuck Norris, Kirk Cameron, and Pat Sajak count? Probably not, I'm stretching it too much. ;)

Around her hair she wore a yellow ribbon...

podborski says on Jan 7, 2008, 03:29:

who? jaja

podborski says on Jan 7, 2008, 03:30:

but I think Bruce wanted to invade Colombia a while back to stop the drug flow didn't he? He's a little over zealous I'd say

travelingirl says on Jan 7, 2008, 03:30:

HAHA! Crud.

Around her hair she wore a yellow ribbon...

travelingirl says on Jan 7, 2008, 03:30:

Two words, Mel Gibson.

Around her hair she wore a yellow ribbon...

podborski says on Jan 7, 2008, 03:32:

I don't really know where Mel stands, but I'd hope not on my side, he's a potential nutcase

Tom Selleck on the other hand, unlike Arnie he could actually be president

travelingirl says on Jan 7, 2008, 03:33:

I don't remember Bruce saying he wanted to "invade" Colombia (although I could be wrong) but he did talk about how "drugs are bad" (said in South Park voice) and that we needed to do whatever it takes to stop the drug trade.

Around her hair she wore a yellow ribbon...

travelingirl says on Jan 7, 2008, 03:34:

I still have yet to see Passion of the Christ and that movie has been out for a bit.
Arnie-- you mean the fact he wasn't born in America?

Around her hair she wore a yellow ribbon...

Dan says on Jan 7, 2008, 03:46:

I haven't seen that either... but I have seen The Nativity Story, and that was a pretty good movie

God Bless America!

athensugadawg says on Jan 7, 2008, 06:21:

Hey Cassini..."reactionary yankees"??? I mean, you call a few of us here the most trite cliche imaginable...can't you do any better than that? By the way, have you ever lived in the U.S. since you know it so well?

Rikito says on Jan 7, 2008, 18:07:

cassini77, you continue your display of ignorance. Moore is not even a U.S. citizen. He is a Canuk and hates the U.S. as he has stated so often. Even his father thinks that he warped, but he enjoys his money. Cassini, get your head out of Moore's asshole and breath, breath, breath.

It is not life that matters, but the journey.

podborski says on Jan 7, 2008, 18:12:

I forget exactly what Bruce said, but at least he was good enough to retract it later.

Yeah, I think Arnie has no hope as he wasn't born there, right?

kalder says on Jan 8, 2008, 04:51:

Pah! Reactionary imperialist counter-revolutionary yankee paper tigers. You have no understanding of dialectical democratic workers' struggle. Pah!

"kalder- have you ever had a woman?"--Sam Salmon

Rikito says on Jan 8, 2008, 07:49:

Ah Kalder...you and cassini having coffee together?

It is not life that matters, but the journey.

kalder says on Jan 8, 2008, 08:00:

Forging a paradise for the proletariat, in a fug of Gauloise smoke... :)

"kalder- have you ever had a woman?"--Sam Salmon

Rikito says on Jan 9, 2008, 09:44:

where do you get this crap...from Wiki or an old book on Marxism. Better get current and get real.

It is not life that matters, but the journey.