Ecuador sues Colombia in world court

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Source: AP

Ecuador is asking the International Court of Justice to force Colombia to halt spraying herbicides on coca fields along its border, Foreign Minister Maria Isabel Salvador announced Monday.

Salvador said Ecuador had tried to get Colombia to stop the spraying close to the border for seven years, and "the diplomatic process was exhausted."

The suit filed before the world court at The Hague comes at a time of tension between the South American neighbors because of a cross-border Colombian raid on a rebel camp -- an attack that Ecuador says violated its sovereignty.

Salvador told a news conference Ecuador has "overwhelming evidence" that the aerial spray has crossed the border "and as a result the health and economics of numerous Ecuadoreans have been seriously affected." The country says crops and livestock have been harmed.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Ecuador has been BEGGING Colombia for ages to stop savaging its border with defoliants, as it harms

people and animals as well as kills all the vegetation in ECUADOR. They have basically been ignored.

Uribe could have dealt with Reyes for all this time while he was in Colombia. Ecuador wants to know why was it they only claimed to know where he was the minute he showed up in their own sovereign country in the group preparing to return the hostages? Good ####ing question.

Ecuador has been spending a horrendous amount of money keeping soldiers patroling the border all this time. Could not Uribe shake loose some of the BILLIONS of dollars _Bush sends Uribe from the U.S. taxpayers' own money to guard HIS OWN ####ing BORDERS? Hell, no, that would eat into the funds he has to keep for his military which kills civilians and dresses them as rebels, to keep up the appearance of a legitimate war, legal defense for his own party legislators and cabinet members who are legally challenged for their dirty association with the death squads, and for walking around money.

[Judi Lynn]

2. If Uribe doesn't want to be bothered with patrolling his own borders with funds from U.S. taxpayers

he should be forced to do without such horrendous cash outlays for his "walking around" money. He has NEVER had to live on Colombia's income.

He is even getting a similar deal from the E.U. They must be laughing their fascist, death-squad loving asses off at us.



Uribe, leave your neighbors alone, and ignore _Bush when he attempts to use you as a weapon against the leftist Presidents of South America. Try to remember just the hell where your country IS, after all, otherwise maybe it can be arranged to tow it to the waters near Miami so you can be close to your allies.



Uribe, always the center of attention, whoops it up with his friends,
Chavez, Morales, and Correa at the occassion of Correa's inauguration.

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3. Uribe

Uribe does what DEA, CIA and other mafioso narcoterrorists tell him. He's their pawn. US people revolt and get rid of DEA and CIA etc. terrorist organizations, then also Uribe is finished. Simple.

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4. Who is

the man to the right of Uribe?

Anyways, good for Ecuador!

[Judi Lynn]

5. Not a president. Don't know. To Uribe's right, Rafael Correa. n/t

[Peace Patriot]

6. I hope the peasant farmers' whose DNA has been damaged, and that of their

children, clean Colombia's clock on this one. The billions that Colombia receives from U.S. taxpayers in military aid, and anything else they receive, as well as their ill-gotten gains from the cocaine trade, Colombia's major export, are not feeding the hungry and clothing the naked and housing the homeless. Their largely unearned money is padding the pockets of the rich. So I hope for a BIG settlement--and I hope it includes large payments from the individuals who ordered the sprayings, as well as major reparations from the corporations that provide the poisons, and the one that oversees and operates this horror, DynCorp.

I don't know if a World Court victory would include reparations, but, if Colombia is found guilty of this outrage, it would open the way to civil cases. What is being done to the small peasant farmers on the Ecuador and Venezuela borders, and in Colombia, in the name of the "war on drugs," is a war crime.

And I am very glad to see Ecuador's government stand up against these criminals. The "war on drugs" is a corrupt, murderous and exceedingly expensive failure. Under Bush, it's only purpose is to cause trouble in South America.