Sunday, March 9, 2008
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez makes public appeal to the head of Colombia's FARC guerrillas to release Ingrid Betancourt
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a public appeal to the head of Colombia's FARC guerrillas on Saturday to release high-profile French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt. 'From here I send a request to Manuel Marulanda. Manuel Marulanda, send us Ingrid. Send us Ingrid. On this International Women's Day, I expressly ask you to do it,' Chavez said in a speech during a Women's Day ceremony in Caracas. 'When you can, when the conditions make it possible, liberate Ingrid Betancourt. She's the only woman who is still in the hands of the FARC. It doesn't make sense to keep her in the jungles of Colombia,' Chavez said to a cheering audience of women, including Betancourt's mother.
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It'd be nice to hear Chávez make pointed demands of the colombian oligarchy and Uribe now. You don't bring in socialism and fight capitalism by accepting the hypocritical bourgeois version of reality. Sure the colombian régime ain't gonna be releasing their hostages without a lot of arm-twisting -- but Chávez can at least make a point of the criminality of this gangster régime on that point. Don't maintain the fiction that somehow the FARC are the problem here. The colombian oligarchs are and always have been the real problem.
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