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by the entire Rio Group--every Latin American country--soon after it occurred. It was NOT a "hot pursuit" situation, as discovered by the Ecuadoran military when they inspected the site. The found bodies in their pajamas shot in the back. The camp was asleep when Colombia and the U.S. dropped a load of U.S. "smart bombs" on the site and then raided over the border to shoot any survivors. Further, it was well-known that this was a hostage release camp. Three European envoys--from Switzerland, France and Spain--were in Ecuador, on their way to the camp for the release of high profile hostage Ingrid Betancourt and others, when they were warned off (by someone in Colombia). Her family had been notified. And several Mexican students, who were killed by the bombs, were at the camp for the humanitarian event. Raul Reyes, the FARC commander, had set up this camp, just inside Ecuador's border, to release Betancourt and others in a bid for peace in Colombia's 40+ year civil war. The reason he chose this border area was probably because, when Uribe had asked Hugo Chavez to negotiate with the FARC for hostage releases, in Dec 07/Feb 08, and Chavez succeeded, the Colombian military bombed the hostages as they were on route to their freedom. (Those hostages held a press conference about it, which was not covered by our corpo-fascist media.) The Venezuelan/Colombia border was too "hot" and the fascists in Colombia, and in the White House, too hostile to Chavez.
This is why the attack was unanimously condemned in Latin America and why Uribe was compelled to apologize for it and to promise that Colombia would never do it again. But now that the CIA has dumped Uribe, and will install former Defense Minister Manuel Santos (the 'Donald Rumsfeld' of Latin America) as 'president' of Colombia, and the U.S. military will be occupying the country, the issue becomes even more critically important. Ecuador is right to bring it up again, to reinforce this policy and bolster Ecuador's and other countries' sovereignty as much as possible. It is just such a situation as this that could be used to start Oil War II in South America (a 'Gulf of Tonkin'-type incident), and it is quite likely that this bombing/raid on Ecuador was a rehearsal of that sort of strategy. Ecuador and Venezuela both became alarmed by the attack and rushed military battalions to their borders, not knowing what might happen next. Lula da Silva has credited Chavez for calming things down and preventing a U.S.-instigated war, then and there. (He called Chavez "the great peacemaker"). As to U.S. involvement, the Ecuadoran military reported that Colombia did not have the capability of delivering U.S. "smart bombs," and it was likely a U.S. plane, pilot and bombs that attacked Ecuador. They probably originated at the U.S. military base at Manta, Ecuador, which Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador had determined to shut down. (He did so last year.)
The Bushwhacks/Pentagon were likely trying to accomplish several things by this bombing/raid--punishing Correa for kicking the U.S. military out of Ecuador, testing U.S./Colombia coordination systems, rehearsing methods of starting a war, concocting their bullshit story about the FARC laptop (later laptopS)--the "miracle laptops"--that they allegedly recovered from the bombing site, containing 'evidence' that Chavez and Correa are "terrorist lovers" (helping the FARC to get a "dirty bomb," and other psyops allegations) and--most important of all--ENDING all talk of peace in Colombia's civil war. Colombia's civil war is essential to U.S. militarization of the region.
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