Posted on 02/18/2005 7:25:29 PM PST by Kitten Festival
The story was about as buried as possible last September, given the dateline Asunsion, Paraguay. A former president's 31-year-old daughter was kidnapped by unknown criminals. As often happens in Latin countries, authorities were powerless and the public was angry. The fact that she was a president's daughter wasn't lost on them. It signaled that the government could not protect itself any more than the public could, and indeed was as vulnerable as any citizen. So the Paraguayans came out in their thousands, desperately protesting against the kidnappers, holding pictures of the victim and telling them to stop. It's another sad reality of life in South America. Yesterday, authorities announced she's turned up dead, her body dug up in an underground chamber of somebody's house.
Ugly as that story is, the larger story is even uglier. The kidnapping was done not just by local thugs looking for a cash ransom, but by politically motivated terrorists directing the operation from abroad. And their aim was what Paraguayans feared most: to weaken and destabilize their already weak government - so that they could knock the shaky democracy out, move in, and take over.
The sinister forces calling the shots behind the scenes of this professional kidnapping were the dreaded FARC guerrillas of Colombia. But they weren't directing it from their lairs in Colombia. They were doing it from Venezuela. The mastermind and consigliore of this very kidnapping directed at the president of another nation was Rodrigo Granda, the Colombian 'chancellor' of the FARC narcotrafficante organization who until recently was operating freely in Venezuela
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THIS is something people the American People better understand........... Good post KF.
Why thank you, JesseJane. It seems to be a disturbing story to me.
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