Colext/Macondo
Cantina virtual de los COLombianos en el EXTerior
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parece que al delfin finalmente se canso de que le dieran y solo sintiera
dolor en estas supuestas 'negociaciones' de la paz en la locura que se
conoce ahora como colombia.
segun reuters, finalmente le salio algo de espina dorsal al sardino al
reconocer lo que verdadermanete esta pasando y no dejarse enga~ar como
guzman y todos aquellos que siguen pensando que las guerrillas quieren dejar
sus campos de actividades ilicitas y convertirse en ciudadanos comunes y
silvestres.
la paz no se gana con palabras, son acciones. se imaginan a bolivar
haciendo charlas de paz con barreiro? todavia estarian los paises
bolivarianos besandole las nalgas a la corona espa~ola mientras se esperaba
una solucion pacifica.
no joda aprendan de los gringos que botan bombas hasta que el enemigo dice
tapo, tapo me rindo. cuantos a~os trataron de hablar paz con milosevic?
pero despues de tres meses de polvora, este decidio dejar la camorra y ahora
es el agachado esperando que se lo pongan bien hondo. hasta los
curas(aunque ortodojos) salieron diciendole que se large.
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Hostage crisis deepens as Colombia breaks off talks with rebels
June 19, 1999 Web posted at: 8:30 a.m. EDT (1230 GMT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) -- Colombia faced a new political landscape
Saturday in its bid to free rebel-held hostages after President Andres
Pastrana broke off contact with the National Liberation Army and banned any
further talks to win the captives' release.
Accusing the guerrillas of seeking
ransom for some hostages, Pastrana also said he was
stripping the insurgent
group of its status as a legitimate "political force" --
something the
government granted it for the first time ever last year.
"The National Liberation Army has deceived Colombians and
the
international community," Pastrana said in a national
television and radio
address on Friday night.
"The kidnappings they initially called political have
turned out to be vulgar
kidnappings for extortion, an act that is a far cry from
showing a will for
peace" he said.
Pastrana's harsh words came hours after the rebel group,
which hijacked a
commercial airliner on April 12, abducting its 41
passengers and crew, freed
another eight of its hostages Friday in a war-torn corner
of northern
Colombia.
The kidnap ordeal continued for 16 others seized when the
rebels -- known
by their Spanish initials ELN -- commandeered a Fokker 50
aircraft
operated by domestic carrier Avianca, however. And the ELN
was still
holding at least 34 of the people it seized in a mass
abduction on May 30,
when its commandos stormed a Roman Catholic church in an
affluent district
of the southwest city of Cali.
Thirty-three of the churchgoers were freed on Tuesday
night. But a claim by
Cali's archbishop that the ELN planned to demand ransoms
for at least
some of the people still in captivity, and the slow pace
of publicity grabbing
releases staged by the ELN so far, added to public outrage
over the rebel
group's crimes.
Pastrana spoke after Antonio Garcia, the ELN's No. 2
commander and
chief military strategist, tacitly confirmed in broadcast
interviews late Friday
that ransom demands were likely to be made for some
hostages.
"The ELN is autonomous and can carry out any operations it
deems
necessary," Garcia said in one of the interviews. "When it
comes to financing
a war declared by the government we think its legitimate,"
he added, when
asked about possible economic demands to free some
hostages.
Pastrana said, "As president, and interpreting the
sentiment of the entire
nation, I categorically and forcefully reject the
extortionist and delirious
position assumed by this armed group."
The Cuban-inspired ELN, Colombia's second largest
guerrilla army, took up
arms against the state in the mid-1960s. It fields some
5,000 combatants
across the country and has long specialised in kidnapping,
and
cash-for-hostage deals, in a conflict that has taken more
than 35,000 lives
over the last decade.
But it had insisted that it staged the hijack-kidnapping,
and the abduction in
the church in Cali, to press demands for a so-called
National Convention in
which it could put forward its proposals for ending the
country's long-running
war.
It was also demanding a territorial concession by the
government, under
which it would be awarded control over an vast swath of
northern Bolivar
province, as an inducement to enter into peace talks.
Pastrana had named his chief political aide, Juan Gabriel
Uribe, as lead
negotiator in talks aimed at winning the release of all
hostages held by the
ELN. And he had pledged to reopen peace talks with the
group, which
collapsed in March, as soon as all its captives had been
freed.
But he called off any further negotiations in his speech,
saying the law
prohibited anyone -- in or outside the government -- from
"facilitating or
collaborating in the payment of ransoms."
The government has ceded control of a Switzerland-sized
area of southern
Colombia to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
(FARC) since
last November.
The FARC, which has up to 17,000 combatants, also relies
heavily on
kidnapping to bankroll its war effort and is currently
holding more than 350
security force members hostage.
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