Colombian president calls Mexican students accomplices of rebels

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: Associated Press

MEXICO CITY - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said today that he does not regret ordering a cross-border raid on a rebel camp in Ecuador, despite the death of four Mexican students there.

Uribe told Mexico’s Televisa network the students were "accomplices of terrorism" - jumping into a debate in Mexico about whether the students were justified in visiting the guerrilla camp.

The March 1 raid that killed 25 people, including a senior rebel commander, caused a crisis in relations with Ecuador that has not yet healed, despite a Latin American summit at which Uribe pledged not to repeat such a raid and apologized for it.

But Uribe never expressed regret over the raid _ and he said Wednesday that he still thinks it was necessary to bomb the rebel camp in Ecuador because fighters there had launched explosives that killed soldiers destroying coca plants in his country.

"I don’t regret it, in no way could I regret" carrying out the attack, said Uribe, who is in Cancun, Mexico, for the World Economic Forum.



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I think Uribes drug lords have killed a lot of Americans with his drugs, wonder if he show any remorse for that.

[ck4829]

1. How long before Colombia magically finds a laptop implicating these students?

[katsy]

2. *bushco is shipping it now. nt

[Judi Lynn]

3. It's just a matter of time until the find the laptop revealing DU'ers are guilty if

the freeps posing as Democrats don't beat down all the opposition to Uribe posting on this site. Any day now.

[Andrushka]

4. Too late, Judi!

The laptop has started incriminating all of us at DU already!

[Judi Lynn]

5. Oh, no! Is it me or do we hear Uribe's death squads firing up their chain saws, and sharpening their

machetes? I've heard they also use clubs to bludgeon some people to death, after a bit of torture, as in the case of some union workers.

We should have known better than to speak poorly of one of _Bush's puppets.

http://www.csmonitor.com.nyud.net:8090/2003/0818/csmimg/cartoon.jpg

http://d.yimg.com.nyud.net:8090/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070311/capt.sge.elp98.110307203419.photo00.photo.default-421x512.jpg

[AlphaCentauri]

6. just don't get catch sleeping

[Hulk]

7. Colombia is our new "puppet state" in Latin America.

Go figure. It has cocaine production, so since we can't get Venezuela's oil, we'll cut in on their cocaine trade.

What a f*cked up country we really are.