Director Oliver Stone joins hostage rescue team

[NeoConsSuck]

Source: CNN.COM

With its fearsome record of kidnapping and violence, Colombia's largest guerrilla army might seem a nightmare group to encounter. But not to Oliver Stone.

The American filmmaker is jumping at a chance to meet with a group the U.S. classifies as a terrorist organization.

Leaving the glamour of Hollywood far behind, Stone arrived in the steamy Colombian city of Villavicencio on Saturday as part of a mission led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to retrieve three hostages held for years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

"I have no illusions about the FARC, but it looks like they are a peasant army fighting for a decent living," Stone said in an interview with The Associated Press at his hotel bar. "And here, if you fight, you fight to win."



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/30/stone.colombia/index.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. More on Stone's presence in Colombia, from DU'er cal04:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3117305#3117697

[fascisthunter]

2. Very Interesting

I'd love to see Oliver Stone make a movie based on what's going on down there. It would help educate quite a few people.

[davidinalameda]

3. rescue team?

I thought this was going to be a simple hand over of hostages

[Judi Lynn]

4. Take that question to CNN. That's their term. They wrote it, not NeoConsSuck.

If the FARC are bringing them to exchange for hostage FARC people, they are not in danger. Who's going to kill them when everyone wants them alive, unless Colombian forces kill them, in order to continue the war, and continue riding the U.S. taxpayer' Gravy Train, the THIRD LARGEST FOREIGN AID PACKAGE IN THE WORLD.

In that case, they need to be saved from the Colombian forces, as they are valuable to the FARC alive.