Ecuador
Another hung jury: Mistrial in case of Ricardo Palmera
By Mick Kelly, Fight Back News
Washington, D.C. - In stunning defeat for the Bush administration, the attempt to frame Colombian rebel Ricardo Palmera on drug trafficking charges ended with a hung jury in Federal Court here, April 21. With the jurors unable to agree, Judge Royce Lambert declared a mistrial.
Ecuador sues Colombia over anti-drug spraying
QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador said on Monday it had sued Colombia in international court over drug crop fumigation along its frontier in reaction to a Colombian raid that killed a rebel leader across the border earlier this month.
Colombia solidarity leaders condemn Reyes killing
By staff, Fight Back News, March 2008
http://fightbacknews.org/2008/03/colombiasolidarity.htm
Several leaders of the U.S. movement in solidarity with the Colombian people condemned the March 1 killing of Raúl Reyes, the main spokesperson for the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Reyes was murdered in Ecuador by Colombian troops with U.S. assistance.
Was the U.S. Involved in Killing the FARC-EP Leaders?
Written by James Brittain
Thursday, 13 March 2008
While virtually every country in Central and South America, including the Caribbean, has waged in on the debate of the Colombian state conducting an illegal military campaign within Ecuadorian sovereign territory, resulting in the deaths of various high ranking officials in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo, FARC-EP), the United States have remained virtually silent. Such silence from the US is quite perplexing considering the administrations of Ronald Regan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush have wielded a twenty-two year old assault on this insurgency movement.
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Peoples Army - The Cost of Unilateral Humanitarian Initiatives
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19544.htm
By James Petras
16/03/08 "ICH" -- - President Uribe's troop and missile assault, violating Ecuadorian sovereignty came very close to precipitating a regional war with Ecuador and Venezuela. During an interview I had with President Chavez, at the time of this bellicose act, he confirmed to me the gravity of Uribe's doctrine of 'preventive war' and 'extra-territorial intervention', calling the Colombian regime the 'Israel of Latin America'. Earlier, during his Sunday radio program 'Alo Presidente', in which I was an invited guest, he followed up with an announcement that he was sending ground, air and sea forces to the Venezuelan frontier with Colombia.
