Democracy Now! reporting ignores Venezuela's ties to FARC

As reported by Democracy Now! on Friday December 11, 2009:

Ecuador: US Aided Colombia in 2008 Attack

Ecuador is accusing the US of involvement in Colombia’s 2008 attack on FARC rebels in Ecuadorian territory. The cross-border bombing killed more than twenty people, including civilians. In a new report, the Ecuadorian government says US military officials helped plan the attack from the Manta Air Base in Ecuador. Ecuador ended US operations at the base earlier this year.

The report is not produced by the Ecuadorian government rather by an independent civilian commission called upon by President Rafael Correa to investigate the attack that succesfully assasinated Raul Reyes, FARC's rekowned murderous demagogue leader and drug trafficker. The report also exposes Gustavo Larrea, Correa's former security minister, as having met Reyes in Ecuadorian territory where he was requested to help in lowering the military surveillance in his vicinity by changing a general in charge of the area. Correa said a year ago that if any of his ministers were discovered to have met with FARC leaders in Ecuadorian territory, they would be tried for "treason".

Yet most damaging is the commission's revelation, that Ivan Marquez, another notorious FARC leader, kidnapper and drug trafficker, sits in an office in Caracas, Venezuela where he coordinates FARC's public relations as well the newly formed Continental Bolivarian Coodinator movement. The emergence of this movement was celebrated by Democracy Now! recently, as the founders of this movement include all sorts of FARC's crime apologists(Narciso Isa Conde, Amilcar Figueroa and many many others) as well as ETA Basque intellectual sympathizers (Inaki Vicente Gil).

NONE of this was included in Democracy Now!'s report on the ecuadorian commission findings a non surprising fact due to their sad support for Chavez military regime in Venezuela and their intentional insistence of looking the other way at Venezuela's sympathy and support for the FARC mafia drug gang.