US Adding Spin to Colombia/Ecuador Fiasco

Submitted by fyl on 13 March, 2008 - 17:57.
Many sources are reporting the US government "concern" for Venezuela's involvement with FARC. One such article from Brazil is relatively typical. In general, George Bush, et al, seem to be "suggesting" that Hugo Chavez has too close a connection with FARC.

Now, he may well have but there has been nothing but inuendo floating around on the part of the U.S. Even Colombia has restrained itself for the most part. The content of Raul Reyes' laptop has been the focus of much of the "possible connections". The following is what is typically reported.

US under-secretary of state for Latin America, Tom Shannon, told reporters "the information that has emerged so far is worrisome ... because it does seems to indicate a degree of dialogue and discussion between members of the government of Venezuela and the FARC that has to be explained."

What never seems to get reported in these articles was that, yes, Hugo Chavez was involved in a dialog with FARC and that dialog is what had secured the release of six hotages earlier this year. That dialog was directly with Raul Reyes. Again, I highly recommend the the RNN video to see what really happened between Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela at the Rio Group summit.

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It was Papa Hugo's show

Submitted by Daddy-YO on 14 March, 2008 - 10:44.

The RNN video is but a small sound bite of what got said. I watched it live, here in Leon. Chavez ran the show, the master of the ceremony. He had everyone, except Uribe, laughing, full belly laughs. He sang some little political song. And he point blank told Uribe that he will continue finacing FARC, that he viewed them as the legitimate government. Uribe, with mouth full of crow, said nothing in response.

Bolivar's dream of a Grand Colombia lives in Chavez.

Something does not compute

Submitted by fyl on 14 March, 2008 - 11:24.

Are you saying that Chavez said he was funding FARC or that he "could fund FARC"? It would seem that if he said he was funding FARC and you could watch it on TV, the U.S. could do a bit better than saying something was "worrisome".

This is starting to sould like Afghanistan where two superpowers funded the two sides in what probably would not have been a conflict of any proportion if those superpowers had not decided to turn Afghanistan into their own amusement park (with a bit of heroin instead of cocaine as a side benefit, of course).

It reminds me of

Submitted by frankoba on 14 March, 2008 - 11:32.

Nicaragua in the 80's. On one side you had Cuba training and pushing Nicaragua against the Contras, and on the other the USA financing, and training peasants to become contras; many of them kids barely 13 years of age.