Posted on 03/04/2008 7:51:00 AM PST by Brilliant
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said on Tuesday he would denounce Venezuela's Hugo Chavez in international court in a growing Andean dispute after Venezuela and Ecuador cut diplomatic ties with Bogota and ordered troops to their neighbor's frontier.
Colombia has accused Chavez and Ecuador's President Rafael Correa of links to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC guerrillas and the crisis was triggered by a raid by Colombian troops inside Ecuador to kill a top guerrilla boss.
"Colombia proposes to denounce the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez in the International Criminal Court for sponsoring and financing genocide," Uribe told reporters.
Venezuela began restricting Colombian commercial traffic on some points on its frontier as the crisis began to take its toll on the $6-billion-a-year bilateral trade between the two countries, witnesses and businesses in Venezuela said.
Latin American countries scrambled to defuse the spat, which threatened regional stability. The Organization of the American States (OAS), the region's top diplomatic body, was to meet in Washington to press for a peaceful solution.
Correa arrived in Peru on Tuesday to start a five-nation tour of the region -- including to leftist ally Venezuela -- to lobby for support against what he calls a premeditated violation of sovereignty.
"This is not a bilateral problem, it's a regional problem," Correa told Mexican television. "Should this set a precedent, Latin America will become another Middle East."
Latin American governments generally lined up to condemn Uribe, a key Washington ally, for sending troops and warplanes over the border on Saturday in an attack on a jungle camp that killed Raul Reyes, a senior FARC rebel.
But Colombia has pressed its campaign for international support by playing up the threat from the FARC, Latin America's oldest left-wing insurgency, which it labels a cocaine-trafficking terrorist organization.
We need to make sure we support Colombia. They are vital in helping contain Chavez and his cronies. We need to forget about Kosovo and pay attention to our own hemisphere.
More impartial coverage from the Reuters Bolivarian News Service.
FARC and the leftists/marxist Venezuelan and Ecuadoran leaders are on the compulsion, terrorism, tyranny side in this.
I buy only COLOMBIAN coffee.
There are also links that are intercontinental.
In South America Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Cuba all have cozy relationships with one another - and the ringleaders, Cuba and Venezuela, have ties to Iran and North Korea and are also dictatorships.
In the Middle East, Syria and Iran are the ringleaders and they have relationships with Russia.
In Asia it is China and North Korea, both dictatorships.
In Europe, Russia and Serbia are the ones aligned against the US and both have cozy relationships with Iran while one of them is now a dictatorship.
And the dictatorship of Iran is the entity that seems to link all of them together.
IMHO, I believe that China is working all of this behind the scenes. They too are in all of these places to one extent or another (outside of perhaps Serbia).
How biased can we become; everyone other than tin-pot dictator Chavez labels FARC as cocaine-trafficking terrorists.
A “Whoop whoop” BUMP!
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