Uribe wants dialogue with Ecuador and Venezuela

[subsuelo]

Following the announcement Colombia and the U.S. closed a deal allowing the U.S. to increase its military presence in the Andean Country, President Alvaro Uribe Friday called on neighbors Venezuela and Ecuador to talk.

Uribe, speaking in Medellin, apologized for the breach of Ecuador's soveirgnty in March 2008 when the Colombian army attacked a FARC camp in Ecuadorean territory killing 25 guerillas and the FARC's number two, Raul Reyes.

"Concerning the issue of our incursion into the Ecuadorean jungle and the bombing against Reyes, I ask them forgiveness for that," the President said, adding the deal with the U.S. is only to fight against terrorism and drug trafficking.

"Our objective is making an end to terrorism: this is the bandit. Ecuador and Venezuela are our brothers," Uribe said.


http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/5442-uribe-wants-dialogue-with-ecuador-and-venezuela.html

http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2009/08/bizarrely-unmentioned-by-english.html">Inka Kola News notes:

Even though all the MSM newswires have put out reports from Colombia concerning Uribe, US troops, bases, FARC bombings, relations with Ecuador, relations with Venezuela etc in the last 24 hours (here's an example from the evermore right wing WSJ), not one of them mentions the story that's making Spanish language news down on this side or the Darien Gap. (don't believe me? Well here's a Google News list of 191 Spanish language reports and counting). Once again, the place to get the real news on Colombia in English is reserved for the class news webpage, Colombia Reports.
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Tonight's question: Why don't they want you to hear about this? The soft censorship of your newsflow about South America never ceases to amaze me. Left to the classic media channels you really don't have much of a clue about what's going on down here.

[Judi Lynn]

1. He's slippery, all right! Wow. "Ecuador and Venezuela are our brothers."

Why didn't he remember this before he bombed and invaded Ecuador? Or before he has smeared, insulted Venezuela's President, and threatened to invade if he saw the need, as he did with Ecuador, pretending he had to do it to catch stray FARCs, while simultaneously accusing those countries of harboring them.

He's one dirty little bastard. Everyone sees right through this. He knows the entire continent, with the exception of "Two Breakfasts" Garcia of Peru is wildly upset about his sudden offering of his country's 7 bases to US military.

An article out today claims that some of the activities conducted at the S.O.A. (W.H.I.S.K.) at Ft. Benning, Ga. will be transferred to the bases in Colombia.

This little creep can't be trusted by anyone if he would do this to his people, and to his neighbors. His people don't want it, either, that's why they, even beaten down, slaughtered, broken, left homeless, and traumatized by his death squads, have STILL attempted to protest this travesty.

[EFerrari]

2. What now? This man is a manipulative criminal.

He's completely untrustworthy.

[drdtroit]

3. Uribe to Correa and Chavez ...

Hey, I just took a giant shit in you living room, let's discuss it.

[Downwinder]

6. Like putting in a crack house, then trying to patch things up with the neighbors. n/t

[drdtroit]

7. Yeah, don't worry, the crackheads aren't building the house

there just allowed to use the existing crack house. :eyes:

[Judi Lynn]

4. Oh, they're just pushovers for Uribe, aren't they? I think they're sweet on the little fella.

I'm sure they won't have any trouble being seduced by his tiny charms, as always. He's always such a dynamo whenever they are all together.

http://www.aid97400.lautre.net.nyud.net:8090/IMG/jpg/ChavezMoralesCorreaUribe.jpg

Three men discussing the crush they've got on Alvaro, the South American Superman.
They probably envy him for his foreign aid, and his powerful friends!

[Judi Lynn]

5. Colombia air base at centre of US storm

August 17, 2009
Monday

Colombia air base at centre of US storm

PALANQUERO AIR BASE, Colombia (AFP) - The daily roar of Israeli-built Kfir warplanes at this sprawling air base has been matched by cries of outrage from Colombia's neighbors at plans for US forces to use it.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned this week that "winds of war were beginning to blow" in Latin America over a proposed deal to allow the United States to run counternarcotics operations from seven Colombian bases, including Palanquero.

The text of the agreement was finalized on Friday and must now be reviewed by government agencies in Bogota and Washington before getting a final signature.

Washington says the move is necessary after Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa, a Chavez ally, refused to renew an agreement that saw US planes hunt down drug traffickers from a base on Ecuador's Pacific coast.

But the plans have raised hackles in Latin America, which has a troubled history of US military intervention and is home to simmering tensions between many of its neighbors.

~snip~
Palanquero is a strategic base for intercepting traffickers, with its easy access both to the Caribbean and the Pacific, added Velasco, who led attacks from Palanquero against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels in the 1990s.

Colombia keeps a fleet of Kfir aircraft as well as French Mirage fighters at the base, from which a supersonic aircraft can reach any part of the continent in less than half an hour.

Three planes can take off simultaneously and upwards of 60 aircraft can fit in the hangars.

http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/mon/aug17w7.htm