Colombia and Ecuador reach agreement

At least two of the parties are making some sense.

Here is the article from Bloomberg.

Key piece of the article is the following quote:

"Ecuador is a nation of peace that rejects violence from wherever it
comes,'' said Maria Isabel Salvador, Ecuador's foreign minister. "This accord
guarantees that no country again violates our sovereignty.''

Huh? Your country is found to be harboring a leader of the FARC, a group that infamous for kidnapping and murder, and you say that you reject "violence wherever it comes"? Sra. Salvador, would you please follow up this statement with one condemning the likes of FARC and ELN?

Also notice the theory is reiterated that Venezuela's troop movement is a ploy to bolster support for Chavez in his time of waning popularity. It gives him one more opportunity to wag his finger as an 'anti-imperialist' at the US and divert attention away from the poor state of affairs in Venezuela.

Talk about Wag The Dog!!! (A great movie by the way!)

An excuse to live the glory days....

Chavez says he wants peace, and of course gets a shot in about how Colombia is a lapdog of the US.

Read the Reuters report here.

I personally think that El Burro wanted a chance to put his military duds back on and play cowboy for a bit.

BTW, food stuffs are flowing in from Colombia to Venezuela still. I guess El Burro isn't stupid enough to cut off the major source of food stuffs to Venezuela. I wonder how long his troops would last without food? They are outnumbered, out-equipped, and are battle tested against the terrorist forces of FARC and ELN. Last known Venezuelan conflict I am aware of is when there were guerrillas in Venezuela when I was a kid. And not much fighting happened there.

I also read somewhere else that Colombia doesn't have to mobilize any forces to the borders because they can move more quickly than Venezuelan troops. (Thanks to Uncle Sam?)

Who is the Imperialist now?

Interesting report from AP.

Reading it, and of course all of the free money that El Burro is throwing around to his neighbors, who the real imperialist is? Chavez wants to use the FARC to overthrow Uribe.

Note the reference to US contacts at the bottom. This is the first I've heard about it. Will be interesting to see if their prediction of who will become Prez will come true.

Troops are on the move

As of yesterday, troops were not moving to the border between Venezuela and Colombia.

Now they are. AP is reporting that troops are on the move from bases in Lara and the Paramaracay base.

Interesting to note that Colombia has more than twice as many troops than Venezuela. Could the larger number of troops that Colombia has be due to the 40 year war they've been waging against the FARC and ELN? I would be the Colombian troops are more battle-hardened than the alcabala tending Guardia in Venezuela.

Couple of notes about this article:

1. Colombia wants Chavez tried for aiding a terrorist organization.
2. Venezuela is accusing Police Chief Naranjo of aiding drug traffickers with evidence it has found on a laptop. (Pot calling kettle black? And no mention of where this mysterious laptop came from. At least the Colombians have a viable source for their information.)
3. No mention as to why Chavez would think that Colombia would perform a similar military operation against Venezuela, so the assumption is made that Chavez is harboring 'Tirofijo', head terrorist for FARC. Other reports posted here support that theory.

We'll see where this goes.

Are the poor better off than they were under AD?

Here is a fascinating article forwarded to me by The Source regarding Venezuela, and how the poor are actually WORSE off under Chavez than they were under the leadership of former President Carlos Andres Perez.

Note the author is a former member of Chavez' government and was kicked out for highlighting that Chavez wasn't living up to his promises. He is an economist by trade, and his statistics cut to the bare-bones of the matter. Nothing like good solid numbers to cut through the rhetoric and tell the real story of what's actually going on in Venezuela.

Caught red handed

Even more evidence mounts that Chavez and Correa are supporting FARC.

Here is an article from a Colombian news site detailing what has been found on laptops recovered from the site where 'Raul Reyes' was killed.

Of course, all of this will be washed away by the encroachment on foreign soil by Colombia when they killed Mr. Reyes in Ecuador. Of course, harboring a known killer, kidnapper, and terrorist will be swept under the rug by the MSM.

I can only hope that the US is able to stay out of this one.

Saber rattling....

As everyone knows, Chavez has stated he is moving troops to the border with Colombia in reaction to Colombia's incursion into Ecuador to take out Raul Reyes, a senior leader of the FARC.

Chavez' decision to move troops is a tacit acknowledgment of his harboring FARC leaders in Venezuela. Why would you move troops to the border, unless it's to defend against a similar incursion into Venezuela? Besides, Chavez has called Reyes a good revolutionary in the past.

But this is all saber rattling at this point. The Source tells me there are no troop movements in his area on the border between Venezuela and Colombia.