Ecuador leader denies FARC funds

[IndianaGreen]

Source: BBC News

Ecuador leader denies Farc funds

Page last updated at 20:38 GMT, Saturday, 18 July 2009 21:38 UK

President Rafael Correa of Ecuador has denied allegations that he received election funds from Marxist Farc rebels in neighbouring Colombia.

He said evidence had been fabricated to destabilise his left-wing government.

A video broadcast on Colombian television on Friday appeared to show a Farc leader saying he had contributed to Mr Correa's 2006 campaign.

The two countries broke off diplomatic ties last year after Colombian troops raided a rebel base in Ecuador.

The hour-long video was delivered to the offices of the Associated Press news agency by an unnamed Colombian government official and was later broadcast on national television.

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On Saturday, Mr Correa dismissed the video as a "sham".

"I personally don't know anyone in the Farc," he said.

The Ecuadorean president added that the release was part of a campaign by conservative groups "to destabilise the region's progressive governments".


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8157112.stm

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Judith Miller and Chalabi must be on assignment again. Curiously, this is the second "laptop" incident in as many days. The coup regime in Honduras is claiming to have found a laptop with evidence that ousted President Zelaya was planning to rig an upcoming referendum.

Typical CIA crap engineered by aging Miami gusanos.

[EFerrari]

1. JOHN NEGROPONTE is advising Hillary Clinton.

The gang's still all here.

[IndianaGreen]

2. When Bush was President, Negroponte and Bolton accused Cuba of developing bioweapons

Nowadays, the government of the "Change You Can Believe In" is accusing the leftist governments in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Venezuela of being narco-states. I think we can see the same plot, with different players, of reimposing American hegemony in Latin America.

I won't drink that Kool-Aid ever again! Here is a story from the capitalist press:

Chavez Attacks US Report Naming Venezuela a ‘Narcotics State’

By Jeremy Morgan

Latin American Herald Tribune staff

CARACAS – President Hugo Chávez rejected a recent report from Congress in Washington which warned of the possibility that a “narcotics state” could be gestating in Venezuela.

“Venezuela isn’t a producer country,” he declared Friday, speaking from the Bolivian capital, La Paz. “In Colombia, the production of drugs has been increasing. That is now the truth. Venezuela has started to deal blows to drugs trafficking now that the Drugs Enforcement Administration (DEA) has gone.”

The Congressional report was not the first time that Venezuela’s track record on narcotics had been put in question by officials involved in the governance of the United States. The Bush Administration did so – and Chávez’s response to that was to break off cooperation with the DEA some years ago.

On Thursday, Interior And Justice Minister Tarek El Assaimi had defended the government’s anti-drugs record in the wake of a report in the Spanish daily newspaper El Pais said that a Congressional inquiry had estimated that the transit of illegal cocaine across Venezuelan territory had quadrupled since 2004.

In the process, the Congressional study reportedly added, Venezuela had become the principal export route for Colombian cocaine destined for the United States and Europe.

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=339419&CategoryId=10717

[EFerrari]

3. Yeah, it's bullshit. Drug interdictions have gone up, not down,

since the corrupt DEA was booted. What a travesty.

[IndianaGreen]

4. DEA has been used to collect intelligence for CIA

which had nothing to do with counter-narcotics, but lots to do with undermining progressive governments and popular resistance to globalism and transnational corporate interests.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Jimmy Carter had heard the planted rumor about the bioweapons, and asked the Bush people

briefing him immediately before he followed up on Fidel Castro's invitation to him (issued around the time they both attended Pierre Trudeau's funeral) if there is anything to the rumors. They told him "NO" at a that time.

Jimmy Carter was to arrive in Cuba on Sunday. Saturday night John Bolton made a speech at the Heritage Foundation and made a point of announcing his claim that Cuba was hard at work making dual-use medical drugs which could also be used as biological warfare!

Carter got wind of it, and, while in Cuba, was shown through their laboratories, and asked them directly about the alleged weapons. Fidel Castro told him directly they in no way ever had, and further more, he left a standing invitation to Jimmy Carter to feel free to show up at any time of his choosing, and bring with him his own experts and he would be given complete access to their scietists, records, and laboratories. Jimmy Carter dutifully reported this to our corporate media but of course it got NOWHERE the play as did John Bolton's initial lies to the Heritage Foundation. Typical.

http://www.laprogressive.com.nyud.net:8090/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/cartercastro.gif

[bitchkitty]

5. I thought I read that it was the same laptop?

In the article I read, they said it was the one recovered in the raid that killed Raul Reyes?

I guess they're trying to get their money's worth out of the magic laptop.

[Peace Patriot]

6. First it was laptop. Then it was laptopS.

I'd like to know who made the laptop (or laptopS) that survived ten U.S. "smart bombs." They should use the raid in an ad--or a reenactment--since all 25 sleeping people in the camp are dead. Remember those TV ads about the sturdy suitcase? I can't remember the company right now, but they even had "gorillas" beating on them. Nothing could bust them open. They could have body parts flying, and Colombian and Blackwater soldiers rushing in to shoot people running around in their underwear in the back--and the laptop turning into two laptopS then three laptopS, and more--like the broomsticks in the "Sorcerer's Apprentice"--and flying, flying, flying...to a peaceful beach on the Caribbean where a line of junior executives is sipping on tropical drinks, and the many laptops land in their laps.

Good could come of this, in the end. Economic recovery! Everybody will want "the diehard computer!

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Sorry. I mourn those 25 people who died without benefit of trial, under a rain of US bombs, or running for their lives. It was a horrible thing. I didn't mean to make light of it. It's just that there is so little known about these magical-mystery laptopS, including the manufacturer, but more importantly, the extent of the well of info that the narco-thugs running Colombia have been leaking out bits and pieces of, over the last year and half. How long is this crap going to go on? What else are they cooking up? And who is helping them? (My educated guess: Donald Rumsfeld's Office of Special Plans-in-exile.) And why? (My educated guess: Oil War II-South America.)

[bitchkitty]

7. No need to apologize. Sometimes this shit is so ridiculous,

that it seems like a joke. You can't help but get a little calloused. My primary emotion over these events is rage - not healthy, but when I see this propaganda barrage, brought to us by our resident fascists, it makes me so angry there's no room for sadness.

[ohio2007]

8. rebels 'funded' Ecuador election - 18 Jul 09 ( video on laptop information)

A video released by Colombian officials appears to confirm that the country's Farc rebels funded an election campaign for Rafael Correa, Ecuador's president.
The hour-long video adds evidence to other documents found at Farc rebel camps, but it does not prove that Correa was aware of the funding. Roee Ruttenberg reports
al Jazeera video
http://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish#play/uploads/9/nSv_CX1hhv0

[IndianaGreen]

9. This fake video is related to arrest warrant against Colombian former minister Juan Manuel Santos

New Anti-Ecuador Campaign in Colombia

Quito, Jul 18 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador is facing a new slanderous campaign from Colombia aimed at linking President Rafael Correa with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

Ecuadoran Security Minister Miguel Carvajal called déjà vu a video showing an alleged FARC leader who claims he had given money to Correa following the March 1, 2008 Colombia military raid against a FARC guerrilla camp within Ecuadoran borders.

They are not only trying to link our government to the FARC but to smear our anti-drug and anti-paramilitary policies, Carvajal stated.

The Ecuadoran cabinet official warned that the video broadcasts coincide with an arrest warrant an Ecuadoran judge issued against Colombian former minister Juan Manuel Santos for his direct involvement in the attack against the FARC camp at the border with Ecuador.

He added that he is not surprised by the coincidence of the broadcasts with the closing of the US air base in Manta, Ecuador.

http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102015&Itemid=1

Juan Manuel Santos was Colombia's President Uribe Minister of Defense and personal strongman.

[Peace Patriot]

10. Ah, I think you are right. Correa is no slouch, and had gone on the attack on Santos,

who I think is planning a military junta in Colombia, to tear up any remaining shreds of civil government and democracy, and stop the leftist tide that has swept over South and Central America from sweeping into Colombia. Santos (Colombia's Donald Rumsfeld) is a bloody menace, in more ways than one.

Speaking of Correa, I loved his demand that the Colombian government release the videotape of the raid on Ecuador, to prove that Colombia did not have help from the US military. If they're going to leak out doctored crap from Reyes' laptopS, surely they can release the tape of their great triumph over a sleeping camp of FARC hostage negotiators, for the edification of all!