Analysts Blame US for
Latin American Crisis
An ambassador and two
important analysts in
Peru emphasized the US
role Friday in promoting
the crisis that has
brought Colombia into
conflict with Ecuador,
Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Venezuelan Ambassador to
Peru Juan Armando Laguna
told media he is fully
convinced that the
United States was behind
Colombia's military
attack on Ecuadorian
territory, and said
Washington's bellicose
plans Colombia and
Patriot sponsor
destabilization in South
America.
Journalist Alberto
Adrianzen said the
United States is trying
to regionalize the
conflict between
Colombia's FARC
(Revolutionary Armed
Forces) and government,
something really
dangerous for peace in
Latin America.
He asked what the US
State Undersecretary for
Hemispheric Affairs
Thomas Shanon was trying
to say when he spoke
about "an international
action," if Colombia's
false statement that the
Venezuelan government is
financing the FARC is
proven to be true.
Cesar Levano, director
of La Primera daily,
said US President George
W. Bush is working with
Colombian head of State
Alvaro Uribe, on this
crisis.
He considered it
predictable that the
duet launches "new
aggressions,
provocations and
slanders against the
calls to negotiate the
Colombian conflict and
in favor of freedom for
the FARC hostages, as
that made by the French
government.
The US interference was
denounced also during a
demonstration to condemn
the aggression against
Ecuador carried out by
the Political and Social
Coordinator's Office of
people's organization
and leftwing parties, in
front of the Colombian
Embassy.
Ambassador Laguna
explained that his
country has adopted
preventive defense
measures, faced with
threats to intervene in
its territory launched
by the Colombian
government, with the
pretext of capturing
FARC members and
authorities that
supposedly support them. |
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