End Game Now

[Jay_D]

left Center Brazil partners up with Colombia's Urube
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080720/..._military_dc_1

Check it out!

[LastLion]

Wow someone else paying attention to LAM news!! Good link! Brasil ain't stupid, they know who the up and comers are?? And of course that jungle border of theirs is really a rats nest for the FARC and other drug producer and narcos!

[Jay_D]

Important to know what's going on the ground so as to stay on top of the game and know exactly what the potential risks and rewards might be.

Suprising that this latest abduction event was not mentioned on this board
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7515153.stm
Kidnapping of 10 tourists, Colombianos and foreigners on a tour boat in Choco.

Saw some bad advise given to a newb recently, saying not to worry if you are backpacking...when IMHO often times these abductions are opportunity based rather than targeting a specific individual. It is absolutely necessary to know the areas to stay clear of in order to maintain personal security!

You're right on about tightening up the frontier security...hopefully this will help.

[Airto]

Originally Posted by Jay_D

Important to know what's going on the ground so as to stay on top of the game and know exactly what the potential risks and rewards might be.

Suprising that this latest abduction event was not mentioned on this board
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7515153.stm
Kidnapping of 10 tourists, Colombianos and foreigners on a tour boat in Choco.

Saw some bad advise given to a newb recently, saying not to worry if you are backpacking...when IMHO often times these abductions are opportunity based rather than targeting a specific individual. It is absolutely necessary to know the areas to stay clear of in order to maintain personal security!

You're right on about tightening up the frontier security...hopefully this will help.

Guys, isn't this area none for FARC activity? my reading anyway. It was just a few month ago that another boat with tourist and locals came under FARC control and that was mentioned on this board.
Interesting about the backpacking advise, JayD where did you see that?

[LastLion]

Jay D , I think they actually already released those prisoners, I think at least 8 of them were released. i don't post evything here, because noone seams to give a **** , up until now you and airto!!!!


Maybe we can compare notes on where we recieve the news from! I got google searchinh everything from Colombia, Brasil and general LAM news!

here are a couple of good specific colombia links!

http://colombiareports.com/

http://www.colombiajournal.org/index.htm

I prefer the news south of the border over the constant news about our political campaigning! I already know who I am voting for!

URIBE FOR PRESIDENT!

[Micky10]

LL, Airto + Jay_D -

One - the backpacker comment was made by JW in another post (and that certainly would NOT apply to Colombia, at this time).

Two - I would hope that there are many that read these posts, even though there are not many replies, at least they may be read.

Three - Dora was at the dentist last week (Martha - first cousin of El Presidente) she signed a petition for the constitutional changes needed for Sr. Uribe to serve another term. Dora likes Sr. Uribe's work so much, she asked Martha for copies of the petition so she can take them to work and have co-workers and family sign them. It takes a nation to make real change, so credit goes to all Colombians, but Sr. Uribe leadership and planning is off-the-charts GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love - Micky

[LastLion]

Hey I backpacked and bussed and hitchhiked throughout a large part of Santander a few months ago! I would say make sure you check with locals as well as go with a local !! **** we even hitched a couple of rides! We didn't do the hippie backpacking, living under bridges thing, but literally 2 backpack and 2 people!

Don't go hitchiking in CHOCO, thats for sure or anywhere on the pacific coast anywhere to close to any of the venezuelan, ecudorian, brasilian, peruvian borders! Be careful once you get more than 3 hours a way any major city! And than some!

I would say do your research and be overly cautious! ON the other hand, there have been so many nay sayers on this site over the years, that have said thing like colombia will never be safe and the farc will always rule, that that is a little extreme, but that is also really good for the uneducated and undertravelled gringo! Good luck!

[JMitch1959]

British Provocateurs Snap at Heels of South American Integration

July 15 (EIRNS)—British stooges are working both sides of the "street" in Central and South America, to try and keep the empire's Opium War going.

So far, the Colombian and Venezuelan governments are sticking to their historic, July 11 agreement to work together on an audacious program of building regional rail and waterway infrastructure projects to expand their economies, and increase food production. The agreement, sealed following the Colombian government's devastating blows to the narcoterrorist FARC, opens what U.S. statesman Lyndon LaRouche identified on July 8 as a "revolutionary opportunity" to defeat the British Empire's Opium War against the Americas (see last week's EIR Online).

Within hours of President Alvaro Uribe's return from his summit with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos expressed public skepticism that Chávez would stick to the deal. It was not the first time in the past year that provocative statements by the defense minister—with his own Presidential ambitions—blew up regional cooperation, just as it was being reestablished. The Santos family ties to the Anglophile wing of U.S. intelligence go back to the days of the notorious Dulles brothers.

Chávez blew up, and said the whole deal was off, unless Uribe brought his minister into line. A brief but sharp policy statement quickly released by the Colombian Presidency, reiterated that Colombia's policy is to "advance in a new era of relations" with its neighbor, and all government spokesmen exercise "prudence, to not affect this path." That statement was accepted by Chávez.

Meanwhile, Nicaraguan President Danny Ortega is busy trying to save the FARC, and keep Colombia and Ecuador at loggerheads. Ortega told a crowd of supporters on July 16 that he accepts the request of "our brothers in the FARC," that he sit down with the FARC leadership to discuss how to bring about "peace" in Colombia—a de facto granting of belligerent status to the London-sponsored FARC, which otherwise is on the ropes, militarily and politically.

Ortega's FARC gambit followed on the heels of his provocative deployment into Ecuador on July 14, where he urged Ecuador not to restore relations with the Uribe government in Colombia, blustering that if Colombia wished to break relations with Nicaragua in response, all the better.

[LastLion]

20 more farc killed today in another raid in the cauca area!

http://www.reuters.com/article/lates.../idUSN23443404

[Micky10]

John -

You are a smart man and you write very well. It pisses me off that you copy and paste the same old bull****, over and over. Are you too lazy to write what you think? Or is it that you think by posting the same source bull****, volume will eventually drown everyone into the Larouche corner? I am ALWAYS suspicious when ONLY one entity knows the real truth. By their very arrogance give the impression that all others are ****ing idiots.

Love - Micky