So is Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador gonna progress to time of war?
Hugo Chavez is CrAzy! He knows he is evil too.
Answers: Hope not, but it would be discouraging news for Venezuela.
As an FYI - Colombia today only just revealed 14 known sites surrounded by Venezuela where FARC forces pilfer refuge. Should be pretty plain for the world to see that it is more than only tacit approval that Chavez have been providing to FARC.
Sooner or then, Chavez will be gone, most likely at the hand of the Venezuelans themselves.
hahahahahahahaha...if they do...U.S is going to enter the war cuz it's gonna give support to Colombia out.
Chavez is crazy This totally blows my mind. It sounds a LOT like Ecuador and Venezuela - Especially Chavez - wishes to saber rattle and blame Uribe of lots of things. But lets frontage it. Dont you think Ecuador and Chavez if they be REALLY anti terror would do adjectives they could to HELP Colombia get rid of Las Farc? It seem, based on reliable emails, that Chavez is SUPPORTING the rebels and by supporting Chavez that make Ecuador complicit. To me, if youre not part of the solution, youre subdivision of the problem.
Are they going to war? It is possible. Will the U.S. acquire drawn into it? Also possible. As for right now though its adjectives talk. only just sparks no more
There will not be any war, not because in attendance are not any motives, but because it have become usual for Ecuador that Colombia traspasses illegaly the border.
If this would have be backwards and Ecuador bombed Colombia searching for not permitted groups in Colombia's kingdom, then near would be war.
The establishment of Uribe has a militaristic picture such as the government of Bush, but USA have many interest contained by South America to support a war.
Ecuador is one of the most well-run countries in war narcotraffic.
USA has a military bottom in Manta, Ecuador.
No one desires to go to period of war.
Ecuadorian government wishes Colombia to commit on not doing actions approaching they did on the weekend and not communicate to the national authorities.
What would happen if Mexico did that inside US domain?
I'm not a fan of Chávez, but he have won almost all the democratic elections ha have participated within except last one.
Chavez be elected by its people and when the time of year of his government ends, consequently he would be changed, not before.
If they do, Colombia is going to hold 2 new provinces and rename the country gran colombia I hold family within Colombia so I don't want them going to war but if they do I hope the US is nearby 100 percent to back them up and capture rid of that dictator/terrorist Chavez!
For now no, Colombia doesn't want period of war. They know that Chavez is connected to FARC, but thats not a reason for time of war. What that means is that Chavez should be sent and tried at the UN international court. I intuitively think he should be shot so he can enrol his FARC buddy in hell. I'm Venezuelan, he ******* my country up. The merely one that wants period of war is that sadist maniac. If everybody keeps on ignore this maniac though, and no one tries to stop him. he could start making steps toward period of war. Im just hoping that they stop him up to that time something crazy like that does take place It's not yet clear what is going to appear. Here's an article I read yesterday on this issue:
US-backed border massacre brings South America to brink of war
By Bill Van Auken
5 March 2008
World Socialist Web Site
www.wsws.org
The Colombian military’s massacre concluding Saturday of 17 members of the guerrilla movement FARC, including its second contained by command, on Ecuadoran soil has brought tension in the region to an unprecedented smooth, raising the serious threat of armed conflict.
Both Ecuador and Venezuela hold massed thousands of troops on their borders with Colombia, while breaking bad diplomatic relations with the right-wing command of President Alvaro Uribe in Bogota and expelling its ambassadors and diplomatic personnel from Quito and Caracas.
Authorities within Bogota initially claimed that the killing of the FARC commanding officer Raul Reyes and the other guerrillas was a event of Colombian troops pursuing and killing them surrounded by battle. A forensic investigation by Ecuador, however, established that murdered FARC member were the victims of a bombardment launch while they were sleeping and that some of them be then finished stale by Colombian ground forces, execution-style.
Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa denounced the attack as a gross violation of Ecuador’s sovereignty and warn that the actions of the Uribe elected representatives threatened to turn the region into “another Middle East.”
Indeed, the killing of Reyes, who served as the FARC’s prevalent international representative, pursuing diplomatic contacts in Europe and Latin America, have all the earmark of a “targeted assassination.”
Colombian police officials made no hidden of the fact that the target was carried out by US protection forces, which are extremely active within the south of the country near the Ecuadoran border. US intelligence resources be used to track Reyes’s satellite phone, according to the Colombian officials. The US have funneled some US$5 billion in military aid into Colombia underneath the aegis of “Plan Colombia,” an operation that was launch on the pretext of waging a “war on drugs,” but which have increasingly been focused on a counterinsurgency electioneer against the FARC, a rural-based guerrilla movement that has be fighting administration forces for 40 years and which has controlled up to 40 percent of Colombian domain.
Correa indicated in a televise address Monday that the attack was launch in the context of intense discussions involving the Ecuadoran administration and Reyes over the release of nearly a dozen high-profile hostages held by the FARC, including the former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three capture US military contractors.
“I regret to inform you that the conversations were totally advanced for the freeing in Ecuador of 12 hostages, among them Ingrid Betancourt,” said Correa. “It be all frustrated by the militarist and authoritarian hand. We cannot discount that this was one of the motives of the [Colombian] incursion.”
The French Foreign Ministry also revealed Tuesday that it have been surrounded by discussions with Reyes over the release of hostages—particularly Betancourt, who holds French citizenship—and that the Colombian elected representatives was informed of these contacts.
Betancourt’s ex-husband denounced the movements of the Uribe government as “abominable,” charging that it launch the attack to block any agreement on a hostage release.
The principal committee in support of Ingrid Betancourt’s release contained by France issued a statement declaring its “dismay” over the turn of events. “When the exit door be wide open out, dark intentions hold preferred to slam it violently shut,” it said.
Last December, the Colombian affairs of state attempted to sabotage the ultimate efforts to broker a hostage release, launching a massive bombardment of the nouns in which the FARC be supposed to let the hostages run on New Year’s Eve. Only 10 days later be it possible for the guerrillas to safely release the two hostages, Clara Rojas, a former vice presidential aspirant, and former congresswoman Consuelo Gonzáles.
Uribe’s motives are obvious. He have no interest in any negotiate agreement with the FARC, humanitarian or otherwise. Like his patrons within Washington, he has taken the position of no discussions with “terrorists” and is seeking to continue himself in power through a relentless battle of military suppression. The threat that a release of Betancourt and the American contractors would undermine this US-backed policy lead to last Saturday’s attack within Ecuador.
The Uribe government have attempted to distract international attention from its aggression with a flood of accusation against both the FARC and the governments of Correa within Ecuador and President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. It have claimed that computers captured surrounded by the FARC camp contained by Ecuador revealed that Caracas had supplied the guerrilla movement next to funding and arms and that the government contained by Quito had also supported it. The Uribe government claimed it would bring charges against Chavez within the International Criminal Court.
It also claimed that it contained information suggesting that the FARC was attempting to buy uranium to spawn a “dirty bomb.” “This means the FARC is taking big steps contained by the world of terrorism to become a global aggressor,” Gen. Oscar Naranjo, director of Colombia’s national police, said during a communication conference.
Both Caracas and Quito dismissed the charges. The Venezuelan government announced that it have captured its own computer from a Colombian drug trafficker implicate the Colombian police chief in drug deal.
The US State Department initially stressed that the crisis was a bilateral business to be worked out diplomatically between Ecuador and Colombia, while condemning the Chavez government for intervening contained by the matter.
On Tuesday, however, US President George W. Bush made a public statement from the White House unconditionally supporting the Colombian regime’s military aggression.
Announcing that he have spoken with Uribe ahead of time, Bush declared, “I told the President that America fully supports Colombia’s democracy, and that we firmly oppose any act of aggression that could destabilize the region. I told him that America will continue to stand beside Colombia as it confronts violence and trepidation and fights drug traffickers.”
He go on to demand that Congress rapidly pass a US-Colombian free trade agreement, declare it a matter of “national payment.”
Significantly, both of the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination echo Bush’s unconditional support for the right-wing government of Uribe and its aggression against Ecuador.
Senator Hillary Clinton, speaking Tuesday to the Spanish-language TV network Telemundo, asserted that “the Colombian state have the right to defend itself against terrorist drug-trafficking organization which have kidnap innocent citizens, including Americans.”
She added, “In supporting the FARC, [Venezuelan President] Chavez is openly taking the side of unfair groups that are threatening Colombian democracy and the peace and security of the region.”
Taking a nearly transposable position, Senator Barack Obama issued a statement declaring, “The Colombian relatives have suffered more than four decades at the hand of a terrorist insurgency and the Colombian government have every right to defend itself against the FARC.”
Neither of the Democrats evinced the slightest concern for the defiance of Ecuador’s sovereignty, much less the suffering inflicted on the Colombian nation by decades of massacres and assassinations perpetrate by the Colombian military and its allies in the right-wing paramilitary extermination squads.
The message was unmistakable. No issue which party win the White House in November, Washington’s pursuit of its strategic interests within Latin America by means of aggression and provocation will verbs unabated.
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