[marron]

Correa has promised to pull the plug on our air patrols that fly out of Manta. We built the air-field, but that won't mean anything.

Ecuador has always been FARC's safe zone, but they have always had to keep it low profile. You wonder if it will become more explicit now. Chavez is pretty openly allied with FARC. I wonder if Correa will follow suit.

[mgist]

Ecuador has also recently confiscated over $1 billion US dollars in assets of Oxy petroleum.

[StJacques]

On Ecuador and the FARC, the situation presents real dangers for Colombia. It is literally being invaded from safe havens in two neighboring countries. To the degree to which either or both Venezuela and Ecuador cooperate with the FARC, and you are correct that Venezuelan support for the FARC has been at times open, the granting of these safe havens is tantamount to an act of war.