Ecuador-Colombia Talks
Worsen
New discoveries over the
Colombian bombing of
northern Ecuador show
ineffectiveness of
diplomatic efforts to
solve the bilateral
crisis.
Ecuadorian foreign
minister Maria Isabel
Salvador criticized the
Colombian silence
Wednesday after demands
to deliver information
about its military
attack on a secret
guerrilla camp from that
nation in this
territory.
She stressed the need to
know in details how the
operation took place,
what types of planes and
armaments were used and
how many police and
military troops took
place in the raid.
Despite official
demands, Bogotá has not
sent the video of the
March 1st operation,
which proves the
mistakes of diplomacy in
this case, emphasized
Salvador.
The official pointed out
she will insist or use
other international ways
to force the neighbor
meet the rules and
international law..
Until now Colombia had
not been able to provide
reliable and true
information of those
events, which killed 26,
among them four Mexican
youth, one Ecuadorian
and Raul Reyes, the
spokesman of the
Colombia Revolutionary
Armed Forces (FARC).
Salvador's declarations
took place shortly after
the Defense Minister
Javier Ponce reiterated
that intelligent bombs
were used in that armed
action through global
positioning systems
(GPS), a technology
incompatible with
Colombian war planes.
He warned that even
recent acquired planes
like the Super Tucano
turboprop do not have
the necessary technology
to launch those devices.
Ponce emphasized that
Bogotá received help
from a third foreign
force, and without
mentioning any nation
she has suggested that
it was the United
States, President Alvaro
Uribe"s main ally.
She reiterated Colombian
authorities the need for
recovering the videos
installed in the planes
in order to confirm
details of the attack.
The Ecuadorian
government also assured
Wednesday that at least
four of the 26 people
who died in the
operation survived the
bombing but were
subsequently
assassinated by
Colombian military. |
