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did the president of France and others ask him to continue his efforts. They thanked him, and asked him to continue, because he persisted, in the face of Bush Junta orders to Uribe to stop the negotiations, and got the first two hostages released, despite every Bushite/Uribe effort to sabotage that release, including Uribe calling it off at the last minute, using a lame excuse, then using his advantage to arrest three of the FARC negotiators who were on route to Caracas with "proof of life" documentation (the first step in hostage release negotiations), got hold of the "proof of life" and tried to claim credit for it. The hostages' families quickly contradicted that, and credited Chavez. Uribe then "somehow" got wind of where a child hostage--housed in a foster care home--was located (from the "proof of life" docs?), and used THAT to issue the absurd charge that both FARC andChavez were lying that FARC had custody of the child and could and would release him.
You just don't do that in a hostage negotiation--make wild charges of lying, and show bad faith by starting then suddenly stopping a negotiation and arresting curriers. You are putting the hostages' lives in great danger. And the fact that Uribe behaved this way tells me that neither he nor his puppetmasters in Washington give a crap for the lives of these hostages. The hostages are just pawns in their global corporate war game. And what a disgusting, disreputable, murdering lot they are--the Bush Junta and their fascist buds in Colombia!
Betancourt's mother understands perfectly well what happened, and how duplicitous and ill-intentioned the Uribe government is. That's why she's calling for--and praying for--a change of government in Colombia. Colombia needs a government that, a) severs its ties to the Bushites and its dependence on massive U.S. military aid, and b) wants peace.
As Chavez has clearly shown, there are leaders in South America who will take the time and trouble and personal risk to bring about a peaceful settlement of Colombia's 30+ year civil war: Chavez in Venezuela (the first to make progress), also Cristina Fernandez Kirchner in Argentina, who pledged to help with this in her inaugural address (she is a friend and ally of Chavez), Rafael Correa in Ecuador (borders Colombia, threat of this war spilling over the border; friend and ally of Chavez), Evo Morales in Bolivia (where Colombian rightwing forces may be trying to help the local rightwing split the country in two, so the rich get to control the big gas reserves; Morales also a friend and ally of Chavez), Lula da Silva in Brazil (friend and ally of Chavez; also borders Colombia), and others.
Gee, Chavez has LOTS of friends and allies in South America. And Uribe has almost none. Chavez and his friends and allies want peace. Uribe and the Colombian military don't want peace--they are into U.S. military booty, lots of it. They need to keep the war going.
This is not a matter of "crediting" FARC with hostage releases. It is a matter of how to bring about peace. And the peace process is starting, and must start, with release of hostages.
As to credit, Chavez deserves credit in this situation--as all honest parties of interest have stated publicly. It is the Bush Junta and Uribe who want to deny him credit, and wanted to stop him. That's why the Bush USAID/NED and the CIA have funded and organized anti-FARC demonstrations this week, in Colombia and among Colombians in other countries. They want to grab headlines away from Chavez, and the prospects for peace. They want to turn the tide away from peace back toward hatred, war and boondoggle military expenditures. The dirty rat bastards--using what may be a sincere desire for peace in some of the protesters to make more war! Really, it makes me want to puke. I see through them, and I see their evil intentions. And I don't see how anyone who has followed these murderous war profiteers through their war on Iraq can trust them now, or trust their puppet Uribe, or believe any of the spin and disinformation they are putting out.
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