AP Newsbreak: Rebel video hounds Ecuador’s Correa
An hour-long video police found in a computer of an alleged rebel appears to confirm that Colombia’s largest rebel army gave money to the 2006 election campaign of President Rafael Correa of Ecuador.
The video shows the second-ranking commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia reading the deathbed manifesto of founding leader Manuel “Sureshot” Marulanda. The manifesto states that the FARC made contributions to Correa’s campaign, but it’s possible that Correa wasn’t aware of them.
The video, given to The Associated Press by a government official on condition of anonymity due to political sensitivity, adds weight to evidence found in a half-dozen electronic documents recovered at a rebel camp destroyed in a cross-border raid last year. Correa has accused Colombia of fabricating the documents, despite an investigation by the global police agency Interpol that determined they were not altered.
The same rebel manifesto turned up on a different rebel computer recovered in October. But in the video it is read aloud by Jorge Briceno, a member of the FARC’s ruling secretariat and No. 2 commander, which will make it harder to deny.
I’ll post more on this tomorrow.
Por fin ésto salió! Seguro que Chávez dirá que es un montaje, culpa del imperio, pero pues ante todo el mundo tarde o temprano sale la triste realidad.
US policy concerning Honduras reminds me more and more of someone leaving work and finding a group of youths smashing in the windows and windshield of his car. He checks to make sure no one cut themselves and then apologizes for parking there and for invading Vera Cruz in the Mexican-Ameican War. The youths are impressed by his contrite apology and honesty and don’t kill him.
That’s twice I’ve commented under the wrong post. Meant this to be in the succeeding one.