Sunday, March 9, 2008
Latin leaders agree to end crisis / Colombia's Uribe apologizes for raid into Ecuador
After an emotional debate followed on live television throughout Latin America, the presidents of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador offered one another stiff handshakes and joined other Latin American presidents in approving a declaration resolving to work for a peaceful end to the crisis. The statement notes that Colombian President Alvaro Uribe apologized for the March 1 raid that killed 25 people including a senior rebel commander, and that he pledged not to violate another nation's sovereignty again. But it also committed all the countries to fight threats to national stability from 'irregular or criminal groups,' a reference to Colombia's accusation that its two neighbors have ties to Colombian rebels.
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Fortunately this particular crisis came to an end, but the worries of
ReplyDeleteevents like these happening again still there if we do not start our genuine integration once and for all.
This integration and unity must
consist of an strong and powerful foundation, formation of ideologies of unity and loyalty. A unity strong enough not for overcoming but for preventing conflicts like this one from happening again and by the way, the loyalty and faithfulness that Venezuela and Nicaragua demostrated before the world for Ecuador.
Based on what is been happening throughout the world, the People of Latin America, are realizing unbelievably more than ever that industrialized and military powerful nations will do something similar when weak nations with large variety of natural resources refuse to accept the offer of certain model of "democracy" and must have to take it extremely hard by means of threat, agression and ways of invasion, explotation, tortures, destruction and domination .
This integration must also lead to the solution of all the conflicts of any kind, reduction and prevention of any llegal activities that affect negatively other nations and also affect the image of our region internationaly in the same way.
It will also facilitate the permanent withdrawal of foreign militares forces, agents that are based in our region that generally use these excuses to keep its presence in these territories and by far these are a clear threat to our freedom and liberties.
Jose L. Gomez
Charlotte, NC, USA
What's fortunate? The colombian narco-terror régime is still in power -- and the self-described 'socialist' régimes are bound even tighter, hand and foot, to bourgeois legality and the neoliberal world order.
ReplyDeleteThis piece is utterly amazing in its hypocrisy; but even moreso for its twisted, criminal logic -- so typical of the imperialist mind. It's like one side promises not to rape and pillage the other side -- while the other side promises to pay tribute forever... I mean, the NERVE of these people. If it wasn't so everyday in the U.S. media, which bombards the world with this kind of gangster logic, 24/7.
Poor showing, Hugo, Rafael. Your projects of 'socialism' will suffer for this 'reasonableness'. The colombian mafia are laffing along with their yanqui capos over martinis in Miami about now.