Ecuador slams "fake" photo of gov't officials with Colombia rebels

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Xinhua

Ecuador slams "fake" photo of gov't officials with Colombia rebels
www.chinaview.cn 2008-03-18 09:29:29

QUITO, March 17 (Xinhua) -- A photo published in the Colombian press allegedly showing Ecuador's security minister with a leading Colombian rebel is fake, Ecuadorian Interior Minister Fernando Bustamante said Monday.

In a statement sent from the United States capital Washington, Bustamante said the person in the photo is not the nation's Security Minister Gustavo Larrea, who Colombia alleged has met with its largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

Colombian press said the photo came from the computer of Edgar Devia, FARC's number-two official who was killed on March 1 in a raid by Colombian government forces in Ecuador's territory.

The picture showed Devia, better known by his alias Raul Reyes, dressed in military camouflage clothing, and a figure in casual clothes that the media say is Larrea.
(snip)

"Even a superficial examination of the photos shows it is a ham-fisted attempt to interpret someone with a vague resemblance as our minister," he said.




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Hard to believe _Bush's ally would stoop that low!

[Judi Lynn]

1. Check AlphaCentauri's photo in the Latin America forum. I think he has posted the same bogus photo

Colombia tried to pass off. I had planned to go back to examine it, but you'll want to see it now, if it's the same one!

It's posted here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x2746#2747

[angrycarpenter]

2. video or nothing

Photos are so widely faked that they are no longer credible to even The most uninformed.

[AlphaCentauri]

3. Videos can use overlays and blue screens too n/t

[angrycarpenter]

5. sure but

anyone can alter photos, even me and I don't know squat about it. video is much harder to fake and takes an expert and even then it just feels fake.

[AlphaCentauri]

4. ecuadorian family claims that Colombian army took their son's body

An Ecuadorian who disappeared might have died in the bombing against the FARC in Colombia Ecuador and his body moved to Colombia, said today his parents, who claim to have identified the image of his son among the photographs of the victims.

This is Aizalia Guillermo, a 38-year-old locksmith, who communicated with his family two days before the raid Colombian 1 March, which killed the number two of the FARC, 'Raul Reyes', and another two dozen people , including four Mexicans who were in the camp bombed.

"All I want is that I handed over the body of my son," said Teresa Molina, a mother of the alleged victim, the channel Teleamazonas.

According to his testimony, the man traveled outside Quito to do a job and called on 27 without specifying the place where he was.

The body of Aizalia would have been carried by the soldiers who shot down Reyes, and then presented as Julián Conrad, known as the FARC musician who, acording to Bogota, also died in the operation.

Due to such an operation in Ecuadorian territory, Quito maintains broken its relations with Colombia.

"I think they confuse that with the Conrad mustache. They must be confused, "said William Aizalia, father of Franklin.

http://www2.elcomercio.com/noticiaEC.asp?id_noticia=178033&id_seccion=4

[Judi Lynn]

6. Defense minister: Ecuador to maintain troops at Colombia border

Defense minister: Ecuador to maintain troops at Colombia border


www.chinaview.cn 2008-03-19 11:41:12

QUITO, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador's Defense Minister Wellington Sandoval said that the nation will keep troops on its border with Colombia on Tuesday,

At a conference, Sandoval said the nation will keep 3,000 soldiers at the border with Colombia until the two nations' diplomatic relations were normalized.

"Colombia has an obligation to police its border to prevent the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) from entering Ecuadorian territory," he said, adding that Colombia has basically lost control of its southern border and that in northern Ecuador 60 percent of residents are Colombian-born.

He reiterated that no one would be allowed to enter Ecuador carrying guns, and all Colombians are welcome, as long as they are civilians.

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