Originally posted by FMF From the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/8324496.stm
[b]At least 10 bodies - believed to be those of a kidnapped Colombian football team - have been found across the border in Venezuela.
The bodies, with multiple gunshot wounds, were found in Tachira. One of the team is reported to have survived.
State authorities say they suspect a ...[text shortened]... though there is some speculation that it relates to enforced recruitment to their army.
[/b]Those Angels certainly were annoying in winning game 5 of the ALCS. If the Yanks blow this series, I'll never hear the end of it from the Red Sox nuts.
Colombian paramilitaries encroaching on Venezuelan territory. U.S. setting up military bases in Colombia amidst vehement protests from all Colombia's neighbours. The disgraceful Colombian President Uribe angling for a third term - with scarcely a complaint from any of RHP's milquetoast crypto-fascists. How does one differentiate between goodies and baddies when one looks at this region?
Originally posted by FMF [quote]Venezuela has said a group of men whose bodies turned up on its side of the border with Colombia were Colombian paramilitaries training in Venezuela.
[quote]The comments by Venezuelan Vice-President Ramon Carrizalez come a week after the bodies of the 11 men were dumped in Venezuela.
It happened after the men were kidnapped in early October in the m ...[text shortened]... ascists. How does one differentiate between goodies and baddies when one looks at this region?
they're all just as bad as each other, that is very clear now.
I used to think Uribe was better than chavez, but I guess I was wrong, they're both the same except for their rhetoric, going for a third term was a step too far.
as for the US military bases, I see no problem with that, what neighboring countries think is irrelevant, especially considering they're known to be anti-american.
Originally posted by FMF [quote]Venezuela has said a group of men whose bodies turned up on its side of the border with Colombia were Colombian paramilitaries training in Venezuela.
[quote]The comments by Venezuelan Vice-President Ramon Carrizalez come a week after the bodies of the 11 men were dumped in Venezuela.
It happened after the men were kidnapped in early October in the m ...[text shortened]... ascists. How does one differentiate between goodies and baddies when one looks at this region?
"The opposition governor of the Venezuelan border state of Tachira, Cesar Perez Vivas, has also repeatedly challenged the national government's version of events and accuses the government of failing to properly police the border region. "