Ecuador President
Rafael Correa and Venezuelan Hugo Chavez: Close
allies confronting the United States' 'Empire.'
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La Hora, Ecuador
President Correa:
Prove Your Charges of CIA Infiltration!
"We Ecuadorians also have the
right to demand, respectfully but with vigor, that President Correa clarify his accusations that our own intelligence services
have been working at the behest of the CIA."
FARC commander Raul Reyes, killed in a Colombian raid on Ecuadorian terrirtory. Computers found in the raid may prove that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been aiding the rebels and therefore aiding terrorists.
We have every
reason to ask President [Rafael Correa] to demand that Colombia provide evidence of the alleged links
between our national government and the FARC. We Ecuadorians await that
evidence, although critics have aired some well-founded doubts: Why such
eagerness to impede the investigation into the alleged financing of the FARC by
the PAIS Alliance? [The ruling party]. What were the
most recent statements by Hugo Chavez on this subject? Why not meticulously
question the Mexican student [read below] about his contacts in
Ecuador and how he got to the [FARC] guerrilla camp - and other critical
issues?
[Editor's Note:
President Correa on April 5, accused the
CIA of controlling many of his country's spy agencies and said it had shared
Ecuadorian intelligence with Colombia during last month's regional crisis . On March 1, there was a Colombian
bombing raid of a FARC camp in Ecuadorian territory. The raid killed 25
people including FARC commander Raul Reyes and the four Mexican students . One of them,
Andrea Lucía Morret, survived. The author would like to know why Morret isn't
being questioned about Colombian allegations of a link between Ecuador and the
FARC. The FARC, shorthand for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia-People's Army, is a left-wing guerilla group that now controls about
40 percent of Colombian territory [see map on right].
PRESIDENT CORREA FIRES DEFENSE
MINISTER;
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CONTACTS
We Ecuadorians
also have the right to demand, respectfully but with vigor, that President
Correa clarify his accusations that our own intelligence services have been
working at the behest of the CIA. As he made this accusation in public, it is
his moral obligation to provide us with details about this tremendous charge
that, if shown to be true, would demonstrate ruinous conduct, to say the least.
If he does not
provide evidence of this elephantine accusation, Ecuadorians will have every
justification to think that it was an impetuous charge made without sufficient
proof, demonstrating either a lack of prudence and moderation, or that the tale
of a link was invented to provoke turmoil in the military high command. In both
cases, his conduct and honor will have been badly compromised.
On the other
hand, if President Correa presents his evidence in a forthright manner, we will
all applaud his actions and his patriotism. And when he makes this information
public, he should distinguish with clarity those elements that have been
compromised and those that have not.
And in case there
was treasonous conduct - which has yet to be proven - the innocent have a basic
right to demand relief from those responsible - for their own honor and the
honor of the Armed Forces. This is a point that the President is obliged not to
circumvent in any way.
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According to press
reports, the Constituent Assembly will form a committee to look into the
allegations. This will be a vain and politicized exercise. It would suffice if
the President simply report to the country in an exhaustive manner on this
supposed infiltration, so that we can all know the truth. Anything else will
reduce us to listening to the demagoguery of politicians from a dishonored past
we thought we had overcome.
A map showing the locaton of the March 1 attack on Ecuador by Colombian forces, and neighboring countries. The Ecuadorian President, Rafeal Correa, is charging that his own intelligence services have been infiltrated by the CIA, and that this is how Colombia knew the location of the FARC camp that was bombed.
[LATEST NEWSWIRE PHOTOS: The killing of FARC Commander Raul Reyes].
