April 19, 2008        We commend The American Thinker for following this important piece of the FARC activity/political outreach story and appreciate their efforts to expand on what Investors Business Daily and The Wall Street Journal so aptly commenced.  As to the guessing game of just who were the "gringos" meeting inside Ecuador at a well established, multi hectare plantation in the jungle run by the FARC, ringed as it was by hundreds of anti-personnel land mines by the FARC and guarded by the Ecuadorean military and police under explicit orders of Ecuador's current president Rafael Correa, we know now that several Americans met with the functional head of the FARC, Raul Reyes before February 29, 2008  when Reyes died from wounds apparently self-inflicted as he ran into the very land mines that he and his cohorts had planted around his FARC base.
 
One must conclude that the Colombian and American analysis if these FARC camps as being circled by their own land mines to forestall Colombian law and order is a tactic employed by the FARC at their bases. Another tactic used by the FARC is the threat of harm to their hundreds of multi-year captives, currently used as human shields by the FARC to prevent acts of law and order. But to reach a meeting with the FARC, one apparently must use a guide who knows well the lay of the land- the lay of the hidden, illegal land mines and has pre approved rights of passage to and from their illicit domains. In other words, one must conclude that these "gringos" who met with the FARC did so with well coordinated advance planning and with covert guides pre approved by the FARC.

It does appear conclusive that a few names are now known as to just who some of the "gringos" were who illegally met with the FARC in Ecuador, protected as they were by clandestine guides, FARC guards and with the knowing tacit approval of Ecuadorean police-military under Rafael Correa. We know this because a few of these "gringos" self confessed almost immediately in a clever public relations tactic applied to "get out ahead" of the story. Indeed, Congressman McGovern [ D-Mass] and his boon companion  Adam Isaacson of  the anti-Plan Colombia NGO network WOLA- CIP-CIPCOL penned and published their own rear end covering excuses in Colombia's EL TIEMPO and the weekly SEMANA, proving the old adage that `guilty conscience needs no accuser.'
 
No member of the U.S. congress is actually allowed to apply U.S. taxpayer monies to conduct U.S. foreign policy or advocate for Barack Obama's political promise to forgive the FARC and grant them easy street, that is legitimacy upon ascending to the White House. What we do know is that Mr. Obama has neither denied nor credited members of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's working group on Latin America, unwittingly funded by U.S. tax dollars and backed by the Soros family of anti-Plan Colombia NGOs operating openly and with enthusiasm in the Andes now. What we also know is that it is impossibly naive to assume that the U.S. Embassy in Quito did not know in advance of these illicit affairs between U.S. Congressional members and their mouth organs, called anti Plan Colombia NGOs because the embassies have an obligation to protect and defend members of the U.S. Congress as they can and approve their safe transport. Thus, when McGovern confesses that he has been meeting with the FARC and Reyes' own communications confirms this, it is not wrong to presume that the U.S. Embassy- writ the U.S. Department of State/US AID knew and approved these illegal anti-Colombia adventures.
 
We have reviewed Raul Reyes's summary of his "meetings with gringos" and the self identifying "gringos” McGovern-Isaacson pretext as published in Colombia's mainstream media trying to explain just what they were doing with the FARC. Their cover is that they were just ` trying to help the poor' and ` trying to help negotiate the hostage problem.' This is also impossibly naive and as a CYA piece of propaganda, false. The government of Alvaro Uribe in Colombia has by all accounts a superb hostage negotiating team with trained professionals who are well versed in the facts and challenging nuances of dealing with the terror group known as the FARC. And as we can see clearly from the Reyes summary of their very meetings, contrary to the CYA editorials run in Colombia and penned by McGovern-Isaacson, theirs was no ` helping the poor' or hostage release meeting in any event: theirs was an illegal and clandestine political message that soon enough- with the help of Barack Obama as president which they assured- there would be no more Plan Colombia, that is no  more law and order to stop the FARC from rape, murder, kidnap, money laundering, extortion and child enslavement, torture or bombings. No- these "gringos" foretold the happy day for legalizing/legitimizing the illegal FARC and their continent-wide criminal empire, now enmeshed with Venezuela and Ecuador in every sense. In fact, one could make the appropriate conclusion that this clandestine strategy session- a rumble in the jungle- was a political strategy advance to solidify that which must never be solidified.
 
It is incumbent upon us all to review the facts of these self proclaimed so called negotiating actors, which are almost impossible to have and hold from the not-very-honest-support network for the anti-Colombia actors these days without functional due diligence because the very actors who conspire with the FARC say one thing and do another. However, U.S. Congressmen do not often fly in and out of Bogotá, Caracas or Quito without the U.S. Embassy knowledge aforehand. And moreover, it appears that the false guise of "humanitarian help for the poor and the disenfranchised" could have potentially been applied to grant safe passage to these paid operatives who aided and abetted the FARC's political aspirations. Clearly, embassy staffers knew of and assisted these trips to and from the FARC zones in Ecuador.
 
What we wonder was on their minds instead of preventing these terror organization tour group visits and why anyone would continue to pretend that they were "helping the poor" is anathema to us. McGovern and Isaacson pen that they were there to help ` the poor hostages' but the FARC's high command notes that their sole and urgent topic was one of strategy, conspiracy, to develop political supports for the very illegal FARC in the name of Barack Obama and his FARC legalizing friends.
 
We are not satisfied with the tomes hastily published in Colombia to soothe the awareness that U.S. officials and pro drugs activists were conspiring politically to aid and abet the FARC. A simple fact check by U.S. State Department's IG of their travelogue, their tour guide[s] to and from the FARC haven and their actual agenda is requisite. There is no U.S. law sheltering such transparency and there was no net gain in any sense from their political conspiracy with the FARC, which continues to this day, contrary to U.S. and Colombian law. Indeed, these persons have an obligation to turn states' evidence to assist officials in stopping the FARC, not conspiring to help them feel better that their life will be much happier under a purported Obama team.
 
No one alert to U.S. politics today is not aware that Barack Obama is in the pocket of George Soros and all that his "family" of political advance team NGOs entails, despite great efforts to soften this fundamental fact. Soros calls this "diplomacy." We call it treason and note that not one of these political operatives to assist the FARC are legitimate diplomats or trained professionals in the field of hostage negotiations and law enforcement, much as they claim to be attenuated by those who claim to be same. Again- the U.S. and Colombian armed forces and the U.S. DEA have accountable and highly trained specialists who are beholden to act with certifiable results- not under the  pretext of legitimate negotiations which clearly never took place at all and instead were political conspiracy plans which are at best ridiculously inept U.S. tax payer intrigues and at the worst, seditious.
 
Because Isaacson is part and parcel of the welter of Soros political foot soldiers to legitimize in the Andes that which should never be legitimized and because he is a fellow traveler and co author of their blatant cover up with Congressman McGovern, who is a member of Nancy Pelosi's working group on creating harm to Colombia, we find that a U.S. Congressional ethics review of the FARC activities as infiltrating the Pelosi Congress must be had and held to the public domain. To this must be added all the flurry of secret meetings with Pelosi and FARC moll Piedad Cordoba and her like minded pro FARC mouth organs. It is no stretch to grasp the concept that these pro FARC foot soldiers do promise the day soon under the U.S. Democratic Party when the FARC will be legitimized.
 
There has been enough public awareness of this story and Pelosi-Soros-Obama, all of whom take public monies- must be reviewed for the facts. Due diligence starts there. This was no FARC-baiting effort and there was no talk of hostage release or aid to the poor. There was a conspiracy to enable the FARC politically by U.S. Soros-backed actors and U.S. Democratic Party Congressional support.
 
Recently U.S. Congressman Connie Mack insisted on full disclosure of the Venezuelan-Ecuadorean financial and geo-political conspiracies with the FARC from the OAS. To this we would add the urgent disclosure of all OAS-US AID-US State Department operatives plus U.S. Congressional supports for this nexus of evil.
Even as Jose Miguel Insulza lied under oath before the U.S. Congress on April 10, 2008 to cry that there is no involvement with the FARC by Chavez and Correa, we note that more lies are underway to deliver a full CYA on U.S. Democratic Party Congressional support for this lie to satisfy the political aspirations of the pro FARC contingent of the U.S. government, against all reason. 


 
Open here the letter from Congressman Connie Mack to Insulza as pdf file. In the meantime here are some answers provided by the Government of Colombia:

Press Release

The Press Secretary of the Republic of Colombia rejects the contradictory statements of the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, who through the media in Mexico sent some positive and other disorienting messages causing confusion.

1. President Rafael Correa accepted the recommendation of the Carter Group to contribute, without negative statements, to improving relations with Colombia and through this Group sent a positive message to President Alvaro Uribe. His recent statements in Mexico however show a lack of seriousness as regards this commitment to the Carter Group.

2. The Colombian government has the moral authority to fight terrorism. It has resolutely confronted the guerrillas and fought against and dismantled the paramilitaries.  Unlike what has occurred in other Latin American countries, in our country there is no struggle by an idealistic insurgency against a dictatorship, but rather a drug trafficking terrorism which defies a pluralistic democracy driven by the public best interests.

3. The Government and Armed Forces of Colombia on six occasions took action against the individual who went by the alias "Raul Reyes” periodically attacking the security rings of this terrorist. President Alvaro Uribe shouldered the responsibility for the operations and did not transfer that responsibility to the Armed Forces, neither did he confuse public opinion or mistreat the military leadership.

4. In various operations Colombian authorities have found computers in perfect condition belonging to terrorists shot dead by the security forces. Suffice it to mention as examples the bombings against those using the aliases “Black Acacio,” “Martin Caballero” and “Antonio Carlos Losada”. The seizure of a computer found in the hands of a terrorist has served as prima facie evidence to air in court the relationship of politicians with paramilitaries, a situation that still remains to be clarified in relation to the guerrillas.

5. The computers seized from the individual known by the alias "Raul Reyes” were handed over to Interpol to determine the authenticity and integrity of their files. With this information, for example, and with the cooperation of the Government of Costa Rica, a safe was found with $ 480 thousand belonging to the FARC in a residence in the capital of that country.

6. The Government of Colombia handed over evidence about possible links between members of the Ecuadorian Government and members of the presidential campaign of Rafael Correa with the terrorist group FARC.

7. The Colombian Government knew that the Armed Forces of Ecuador were de-authorized by President Rafael Correa when they carried out operations against the FARC in Ecuadorian territory.

8. The Government of Ecuador contradicts itself by saying it did not know of the presence of FARC or “Raul Reyes,” while at other times acknowledging and assuring that it maintained contacts with the terrorist group in pursuit of a humanitarian agreement. The Ecuadorian Government was informed many times of the presence of the FARC in its territory,

9. At the request of the Government of Ecuador, over a year ago Colombia suspended the spraying of illegal crops along 10-kilometer wide stretch of Colombian territory, and replaced it with manual eradication. The protest against the spraying has always been advocated by the terrorist group FARC.

10. Countless attacks against citizens and the Security Forces of Colombia have been launched by the FARC from Ecuador against innocent Colombians who were engaged in the manual eradication of illicit crops. Since 2004 there are 40 documented cases of such attacks in which many soldiers, police and civilians were killed. In February of this year, the FARC activated, from Ecuador, antipersonnel mines killing in Colombian territory those engaged in the manual eradication of the illicit crops and members of the security forces protecting them.

11. The Government of Colombia reiterates its rejection of the downplaying by President Rafael Correa of the presence of the FARC in its territory, arguing that the camp was temporary when in fact it proved to be a permanent camp.

12. Those in a terrorist camp engaged in any activity other than an authorized humanitarian mission are considered to have incurred in the crime of aggravated conspiracy in favor of terrorism.

13. The Government of Colombia notes that FARC terrorist acts include the kidnapping of Colombian-French citizen Ingrid Betancourt and all other members of the group of victims, and of three American citizens and 750 Colombians kidnapped in the last ten years who have not returned to their homes. Also noted is the international participation by the FARC in the abduction and murder of Cecilia Cubas, daughter of the former president of Paraguay, Raul Cubas; the recruitment of minors; the maiming of children with landmines; its financing by the drug trade; car bombs at the Club El Nogal and other massacres. All this is evidence that the FARC is a terrorist group, as stated by Canada, the European Union and the United States. Violence against democracy is terrorism, for which it is sufficient to read the legislation of the United Nations.

14. The Colombian Government reiterates its commitment to comply with what was agreed to before the Organization of American States-OAS-and the Rio Group. There is a need to address these commitments seriously and decisively, as Colombia faces the battle against terrorism.

Bogota, April 13, 2008

Text below photo: A rejection of "contradictory statements" by the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, who in Mexico expressed "some constructive and other disconcerting messages causing confusion," in a statement made this Sunday April 13 by the Press Secretary of the Presidency Colombia, Cesar Mauricio Velasquez. Photo: Miguel Ángel Solano – SP.

You can read the original press release in Spanish here.

We look for the day that these facts are on the table. Somehow we are confident that these answers will illegally be sub contracted to the very Soros groups now conspiring with the FARC. We urge the U.S. Congress to prepare an independent string of due diligence- not performed by the very souls involved but rather legitimate, independent truth tellers, unwelcome as they have been since 2005 in the Andes.
 
-Pedro Camargo