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Chavez Exchanges ??? For Hostages

I’ll bet dollars to donuts (which may be of the same value now) that those planes are loaded with cash, guns, or drugs for FARC.

The Colombian government has approved a plan by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to send planes into Colombia to pick up rebel-held hostages.

The Colombian rebel group, Farc, said it would free two hostages and a child but only to Mr Chavez.

Colombia agreed but said any Venezuelan aircraft entering its territory must bear Red Cross markings.

Posted by Owen at 2300 hrs
Foreign Affairs

1. Those helicopters do not need to be loaded with anything for the FARC. It is a political coup for the FARC to have created this opportunity out of what appeared to be a failure and obstruction by the Colombian government. And this political coup was handed to the FARC by the Uribe government by its petty stone-throwing, by setting pointless time limits over an activity which it never bothered to undertake itself.

   Is it not an indictment of that same government that it is not in any way involved in the logistics of this rescue? If it all goes wrong, if the FARC are blamed, as they are always blamed, for causing a conflagration, perhaps we should remember that the last people who want to see Ingrid Betancourt back in Bogotá are members of the incumbent government and the incumbent opposition who were all seared by her criticisms.

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