ABN 06/03/2008
Caracas, March 6 ABN.- Before the fake charges presented by the Colombian Government regarding the relation of presidents of Venezuela and Ecuador with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, (FARC), Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa expressed that “we cannot be related to a subject who has lost the world’s credibility.”
Correa issued this information this Wednesday [...]
By JAMES PETRASA major diplomatic and political conflict has exploded between Colombia and Venezuela after the revelation of a Colombian government covert operation in Venezuela, involving the recruitment of Venezuelan military and security officers in the kidnapping of a Colombian leftist leader. Following an investigation by the Venezuelan Ministry of Interior and reports and testimony [...]
Caracas, March 5 ABN (Aurelio Gil Beroes).- The murder in Ecuadorian territory of the guerrilla leader from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP), Raúl Reyes, and other 16 members of that insurgent group, filled the complete region of tension.
Reactions from the Ecuadorian and Venezuelan Governments did not take long. President Correa retired his [...]
Caracas, March 5 ABN (Aurelio Gil Beroes).- The murder in Ecuadorian territory of the guerrilla leader from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP), Raúl Reyes, and other 16 members of that insurgent group, filled the complete region of tension.
Reactions from the Ecuadorian and Venezuelan Governments did not take long. President Correa retired his [...]
Uribe’s Colombia is Destabilizing a New Latin America
By JAMES J. BRITTAIN
and R. JAMES SACOUMANA few weeks after the Ecuadorian and Venezuelan state called on the Colombian government to respect the need for peace and negotiation with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP), the administration of Álvaro Uribe Vélez (2002-2010) supported an extensive armed [...]
By FIDEL CASTROI remember when Rafael Correa visited us, months before the electoral campaign when he was thinking of running as a candidate for the Presidency of Ecuador. He had been the Minister of the Economy in the government of Alfredo Palacio, a surgeon with professional prestige who had also visited us as Vice President, [...]
High Stakes in the Andes
By FORREST HYLTONSadly, the operation on March 1 in which the Colombian Armed Forces shot and killed Luis Edgar Devia Silva, a.k.a. “Raúl Reyes,” spokesman for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), along with sixteen other guerrillas in a camp across the Putumayo River in Ecuador, was yet another case [...]
by Saul Landau
Traveling through the country, I see the results of the economic downturn – from urban Miami neighborhoods to poor rural areas like Collinsville and Bird’s Landing north of San Francisco. In January alone, California employers cut 20,300 jobs from their payrolls. I notice more homeless people sleeping in the Oakland and San [...]
