FARC set to release more hostages to Venezuela

[Joanne98]

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) plan to release "within days or weeks" four Colombian ex-legislators who have been held hostage for as many as five years, the French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner announced after meeting Wednesday evening with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in Caracas.

Two weeks ago, Chávez announced the names of three of the lawmakers to be released, Gloria Polanco, Eladio Pérez, and Orlando Beltrán. Yesterday, he told Kouchner that the identity of a fourth hostage will be revealed soon.

The hostage release represents "important progress" and is a "synonym of hope, strengthening the path toward peace," said Kouchner, who will now head to meetings with Colombian President Álvaro Uribe in Bogotá.

The motive of the meetings is "to accelerate the process of liberation of hostages by the FARC, with the important mediation of President Chávez and the Colombian Senator Piedad Córdoba," Kouchner communicated to Colombian newspapers. Chávez and Kouchner also debated proposals for a multi-state negotiating group for humanitarian exchange and peace accords in Colombia, an idea which Kouchner will now discuss with Uribe.

According to the Colombian government the FARC currently hold over 700 civilian, military, and political hostages, one of whom is Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian citizen who was running for the French Presidency at the time of her 2002 kidnapping. French President Nicolás Sarkozy has made the release of Betancourt a top priority of his administration, and this month marks six years since her capture.
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/3189

[Peace Patriot]

1. Kudos and laurel wreaths to Hugo Chavez, for persisting in these hostage release

efforts, despite every effort to sabotage them by the Bush Junta and its puppets in Colombia, and despite considerable danger to himself. He is one helluva smart guy and savvy negotiator, and has created the best hope for peace in Colombia's 40+ year civil war in a very long time.

On the very weekend that the first set of hostages was scheduled to be released, we got this, in the Washington Post...

"The Smart Way to Beat Tyrants Like Chávez," by Donald Rumsfeld, 12/1/07
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113001800.html

Rumsfeld urges economic warfare against Venezuela and other democratic countries, and "swift" U.S. action (military intervention?) in support of "friends and allies" in South America (i.e., fascist thugs planning coups). Recently, Exxon Mobil joined Rumsfeld's war by seeking to freeze $12 billion in Venezuela's assets, over a dispute about Venezuela's 60% share in its own oil (--a deal that Norway's Statoil, France's Total, British BP, Conoco, Chevron and others considered reasonable--only Exxon Mobil walked out and went into war mode).

If there is one thing the Bushites DON'T WANT is peace in South America--removing one of their excuses for billions in military aid to Colombia--one of their few remaining potential launching pads for hostilities. The U.S. "war on drugs" is also a military/police state boondoggle that they want to keep going--as the smart, leftist countries bail out of it (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and others). Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, has said that he will not renew the lease of the U.S. military base in Ecuador this year. So the window of opportunity for Rumsfeld to grab the Andes oil fields on behalf of his global corporate predator pals--and to re-install fascist regimes in these countries--is closing fast. And Chavez's work on ending the Colombian civil war must be causing Rumsfeld's vampire teeth and talons great pain. 'Peace! Arrgh! Oh, no-o-o-o-o-o...I'm me-e-e-elting!!!"

[Joanne98]

2. Lol! I want to see them melt, got any pics?

:rofl:

[Peace Patriot]

3. Along with the polar ice....

Yeah, I thought it was funny, too, as I wrote it. I LOL-ed, maybe because the Bush era of greed and death seems to be coming to a close (don't we wish! 'Dear Lord, it's me, Peace Patriot...!'), or maybe because Rumsfeld's timing is so bad--to attack Chavez on the very weekend of the first hostage release, as Rumsfeld & co's plans to sabotage it got foiled. And doesn't he know that the Freeper meme is now "Chavez wants to BECOME a dictator," since their old meme, "Chavez IS a dictator" ran into a wall of facts. Rumsfeld--lethal as he is, slaughterer of 1.2 million Iraqis to get their oil--suddenly seemed pathetic to me, like the old vampire, teeth dripping with the blood of the young, that he is--meeting a ray of sunlight. And, of course, like our cultural ikon of evil, the Wicked Witch of the West.

What Rumsfeld has done, and the horror that he is still capable of, is not funny. But sometimes you just gotta laugh. And if I were a graphic artist, I would have a lot of fun with Dorothy (Chavez) and her good buds, the presidents of France, Argentina and Colombia (Cowardly Lion???), and the Wicked Witch. (Not sure of Uribe--and I don't think Chavez is sure of him either--he may be the leader of the Flying Monkey soldiers.) (--ally of the Wicked Witch.)

[Joanne98]

4. You may not be a graphic artist but you're a very good writer!

I have pictures of a Chavez Dorothy in my head! LOL