Make your own conclusions:

1. Colombia kills #2 terrorist and drug lord, Reyes. Reportedly killed in Ecuador.

2. Venezuela’s Chavez warns Colombia not to attempt anything like that in Venezuelan territory, or else! (Why?)
+ Venezuela’s Chavez calls the incursion “cowardly” and coldly calculated.
How else can you win against cowards and cold blooded terrorists?

3. Ecuador’s Correa removes Ecuador’s ambassador from Colombia, citing a Colombian incursion into Ecuador. (Why?)
+ Correa takes a stance that does not make sense at this point. Why would the Ecuadorian president remove the ambassador
to Colombia, unless… he has something to hide.
+ At this point this mess just does not make sense. Totally lost! There is no apparent motive for the senseless escalation
of tensions between these three countries.

4. Ecuador “rescues” three guerrillas from the border and takes them to the capital Quito (of all places) to be hospitalized.
+ That’s right - take the terrorists to the capital and give them health care. Make sure they get to Quito safe as they are
VITs (very important terrorists).

5. Ecuador sends troops to the border (why, Correa, why?)

6. Colombian General Naranjo announces that a document of 01/18/2008 from Raul Reyes’ computer about Gustavo Larrea.
+ Larrea wants to formalize the relationships with the FARC.
+ Larrea communicates that Ecuador requires support from the FARC regarding the release of FARC prisoners to the president
Correa so that Correa’s political profile can raise across South America.

So - what have you learned?

If you are supporting the FARC (Ecuador’s President) make sure not to jump the gun when claiming another country has invaded your precious inhabited northern border to kill the #2 VIT (Very imporant terrorist).

If you claim to be the “liberator of South America” (Chavez), make sure you don’t obliterate your relationship with the folks that carry the guns in your country (military) as you might actually need them to start a revolution.

If you don’t know what the FARC latest debacle is, you were probably at TED, trying to save the world

Several supporting links and videos:

Satan’s Poop A great blog post about the current situation.

Venezuela News and Views From the Venezuelan-Colombian border.

Facebook group - A Venzuela without Chavez (3,0267 members at the time of this writing)

One million voices against the FARC Facebook group (323,000+ at the time of this post)

Links to the documents released by the Colombian General

Document 1
Document 2

Colombian General releases documents:

My take on it?

Chavez will continue the bickering until he alienates the Venezuelan armed forces further. The Venezuelan army will not support Chavez’s astray Bolivarian dreams of a unified SouthAmerica. Chavez will box himself and isolate Venezuela from teh political arena and will continue to buy friends until his friends have enough political clout and he is not needed anymore. Ecuador will put his President inline either through a military coup or a citizen driven government overthrow. Sadly, this is normal in Ecuador and the Ecuadorean people will put another incompetent, uneducated, self-serving, power-hungry leader in power that will promise the world and years later will steal from the country again.

From the U.S. side, they will not get involved, unless Bush wants to make one last statement before the term is over. Hopefully that will not be the case and we will see the the issue being dealt with by a competent President (hopefully Obama).

The cycle is a self-fulfilling prophecy of Governmental mismanagement and anti-US sentiment that at the end of the day serves no one but (ironically) the United States by giving it more leverage over under developed countries.