Father of a FARC hostage asks for Chávez's mediation

[Judi Lynn]

Father of a FARC hostage asks for Chávez's mediation
CARACAS, Tuesday September 08, 2009

The father of hostage Pablo Emilio Moncayo stressed that it has been actions abroad that have helped somewhat to overcome this crisis


Colombian Gustavo Moncayo, father of the military who has been held hostage by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) longer, on Tuesday said it is possible that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez cold carry out new moves aimed at releasing military staff and policemen kidnapped by the rebel group.

"I do not think it is impossible (new negotiations by Chávez)," professor Moncayo told journalists in a square in downtown Bogota where a demonstration was convened, reported Efe.

The father of hostage Pablo Emilio Moncayo stressed that it has been actions abroad that have helped somewhat to overcome this crisis.

"This international work is what can lead us at least to put an end to this pain and suffering," said Moncayo.

http://english.eluniversal.com/2009/09/08/en_pol_art_father-of-a-farc-hos_08A2715889.shtml
Opposition newspaper

[Peace Patriot]

1. The last time Chavez got involved in this, he got called a "terrorist";

two of the hostage negotiators he was dealing with (who were carrying proof of life documents) got arrested by the Colombian military (and likely tortured, maybe killed); he got called a liar; the Colombian military sent rocket fire toward the first two hostages he got released, driving them back on a 20 mile hike into the jungle--likely an effort to hand him a diplomatic disaster, with dead hostages (possibly designed by Donald Rumsfeld), and, soon after he nevertheless got his sixth hostage safely released, the US and the Colombia military murdered the chief FARC hostage and peace negotiator he was dealing with, Raul Reyes, and blew away 24 other sleeping people without trial, in a temporary FARC camp just inside Ecuador's border--which nearly started a war between the US/Colombia and Ecuador/Venezuela.

Colombia doesn't want peace. They want war. It's their sugar-train in the US Congress, which has larded them with $6 BILLION of US tax dollars mostly in military aid. to maintain a Corporate- and Pentagon-friendly fascist bastion in South America. As long as they're killing poor people--FARC or not (thousands of union leaders and others have been killed)--and pretending to kill big narco traffickers, they get big bucks. If the FARC releases hostages and seeks a peaceful end to Colombia's 40+ civil war, Colombia's booty dries up.

So this is a snake pit for Chavez. He was brave to attempt the first time. And he will certainly be brave if he attempts it again. And he would probably be a fool to do so (as would the FARC), especially with the Pentagon and the fascists in the US and and the fascists in Colombia looking for any excuse they can find to start a war, or inflict other evil on Chavez and Venezuela.

And I haven't even described half of the treachery perpetrated on Chavez, for yielding to Betancourt's relatives, the President of France, and others, the first time--and accepting the request of the Colombian government to help with this, then having them rescind that request days before the first hostage were releases.