[Marxism] Colombia/Venezuela-Ecuador Danger of War

[Anthony Boynton <northbogota@xxxxxxxxx>]

Things are moving very fast. President Correa of
Ecuador was just on TV. The Colombian Ambassador has
been expelled from Ecuador, and Ecuador is
militarizing the border. The evidence is very clear
that Colombia assassinated Raul Reyes and 15 others
who were with him at a camp 2 kilometers inside of
Ecuador at 12:45 AM. The FARC camp was first bombed,
then Colombian soldiers arrived in helicpters and shot
the survivors int he back. TV footage of the wrecakage
and bodies left behind after the Colombians left has
been shown all over Latin America.

The President, Vice President, Minister of Defense,
and Foreign Minister of Colombia have all obvisouly
lied to the press, and to the President of Ecuador.
Equally obvious is the fact that the Colombian
government deliberately, and in a planned way,
violated the sovereignty of Ecuador to assassinate
Reyes.

Miraculously, two or three of the FARc guerrillas
survived,a nd are now in Quito hospitals.

Ominously, the Colombian military claims to have taken
three computers from the FARc camp with files which
show that Ecuador's president Correa had some sort of
special relation with the FARC.

A war pitting Colombia against its neighbors to the
East and South seemed impossible a month ago, now it
seems very possilbe.

Such a war would touch the whole South American
continent. Colombian electricity, for example, is
exported to Ecuador, and through Ecuador to Peru and
Chile.

Correa has been in touch with the Presidents of most
of the countries of Latin America, and has called for
emegency meetings of the Organizaiton of American
States, the Andean Nations, and is taking his protest
to the United Nations.

Correa has also repeatedly stated that Colombia
carried out its attack in Ecuador with the aid of a
"foreign power", by which everyone understands him to
mean the USA. 

Anthony 




      
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