The article by WSJ’s journalist Mary Anastasia O’Grady, “The FARC’s Ecuadorean Friends” published on June 22, attracted the attention and wrath of Ecuadorean president Rafeal Correa. The reason is understandable: O’Grady takes the Colombian position that the Correa government is friendly with the Farc because of evidence allegedly found on the late Reyes’ computer. President Correa reacted strongly against this claim to the media and The Wall Street Journal. He accused the American newspaper of a campaign of disinformation orchestrated by Colombia against Ecuador. (more…)
On 2009/06/28, In Conflict, By Albeiro Rodas
On 2009/01/11, In Politics, By Albeiro Rodas
President Rafael Correa of Ecuador continues his strong words against Colombia, while increases the military forces at the border. Correa said in University of La Habana, in an official visit to Cuba, that the Colombian government wants to put conditions to his country to reestablish diplomatic relations. (more…)
On 2008/12/29, In Politics, By Albeiro Rodas
Prudence with Ecuador, said the Carter Center after the words of president Rafael Correa. The Ecuadorian president called Colombian chancellor Jaime Bermúdez a liar in his Saturday television program in Quito. He said that Colombia was not serious in the intention of reestablish the diplomatic relations. (more…)
On 2008/05/11, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas
Correction: The man who was killed in the military operations against Farc guerrillas was not El Marrano
The Colombian authorities declared that the man who was killed during the military operations in the Meta State was not Carlos Julio Ávila, know as El Marrano.
“El Marrano”, a FARC leader responsible for the kidnapping and killing of three Americans in 1999, died in a military operation
A Military operation of the Colombian Army against a fighting group of FARC guerrillas, caused the dead of a top FARC leader and three others in a rural area of Macarena Town, Meta State. Carlos Julio Ávila, known as “El Marrano”, had two ID cards, a Colombian and a Venezuelan. El Marrano is the responsible for the kidnapping and killing of Terence Freitas, Ingrid Washinawatok and Laheenae Gay, three USA indigenists who worked with the Aborigen U’wa community in Colombia. The bodies were found in the Venezuelan territory. (Source El Espectador)
On 2008/05/08, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas
The Minister of Goverment of Ecuador, Fernando Bustamante and the ministries of foreign relations and internal security, said in Quito that four men of the FARC guerrilla died by strokes and not combats, during the incursion of the Colombian Army to a guerrilla camp located in Ecuadorian territory last March 1rs.
The Ecuadorian declaration caused a strong protest by the Colombian goverment telling that such conclusion is not true, that the Colombian Army respected the international human right and that there are not such evidences.
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