UPDATE FROM COLOMBIA: Army bombed first - Correa says "foreign power" aided Colombia

[magbana]

Anthony Boynton writes from Colombia.)
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From: Anthony Boynton <[e-mail]>
Sent: Mar 2, 2008 10:06 PM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Colombia/Venezuela-Ecuador Danger of War

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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WALTER LIPPMANN
Los Angeles, California
Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
"Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo"
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[Bacchus39]

1. glad they killed the FARC leader

seems a little more cooperation between Venezuela-Colombia-Ecuador would go a long way.

[totodeinhere]

2. What would the shrub do if war breaks out?

Would he send in US forces to help Columbia? Of course, we are already deeply involved there, but active participation by US forces in a war between Columbia, Ecuador and Venezuela is truly a scary thought.

[EFerrari]

4. With the "news" about Iran today and also about Latino America,

I can't help thinking that BushCo is aiming to leave this country in even worse shambles than it is right now.

[EFerrari]

3. So, there was no chase across the border at all.

This is really serious.

[AlphaCentauri]

5. Uribe could ask Correa to capture the rebels without invading the country.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Bombing, then shooting survivors in the back. Colombian right-wing nobility. n/t