Remember that $500million hostage deal I was posting about last week?
It turns out one of the hostages wasn’t even a hostage.
Colombia Says DNA Links Boy To Woman Held by Rebel Group
DNA analysis indicates a 3-year-old boy living in a Bogota foster home is the child of a woman held captive by leftist rebels for nearly six years, Colombia’s top prosecutor said Friday.
The results suggest President Alvaro Uribe was right — and that the leftist rebels misled Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Colombian authorities say a malnourished boy matching Emmanuel’s description was brought to a hospital in San Jose del Guaviare in June 2005 and then wound up in a Bogota foster home, his real identity unknown.
The tests indicated a complete match between mitochondria in the blood of the boy – who has been given the name Juan David Gomez – and Ms Rojas’ mother, Chief Prosecutor Mario Iguaran said, quoted by the Associated Press news agency.
As The Guardian explains,
The release of the boy – the son of a hostage and one of her leftwing captors – had been offered as a key concession to Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, who was involved in an ill-fated attempt to free captives.
Again, more evidence that the FARC controls Chavez more than the other way around.
More here.
While the Venezuelan chancellor Nicolas Maduro still has his doubts, the FARC themselves confirm that the child is in fact Emmanuel.
http://www.abpnoticias.com/boletin_temporal/contenido/comunicados/258.html
So, who controls whom in this perverse media circus? Ouch, not good for Huguito…
While it feels good to see Hugo get punked, it makes no difference. Hugo is a wannabe guerrillero. He will brush off this off and blame it on Uribe and the CIA. Hugo will continue to do what he can do to get publicity for himself, help FARC along, and weaken Uribe.
I suspect that Hugo holds a grudge against Uribe for Uribe’s having stood up to Hugo in public on at least one occasion,and forced Hugo to back down.