Gerbasi thinks that President Chávez and his government top officers have had an ambiguous relation with the FARC (Photo: Oswer Díaz Mireles)
Interview with Fernando Gerbasi, ex Foreign Vice-Minister
"The case of ETA-FARC-Chávez could go to the International Criminal Court" (click here)
Does the indictment filed by Judge (Eloy) Velasco, of the Spanish National Court compromise, besides President Hugo Chávez's destiny, the fate of the whole country, taking into account that not only diplomatic relations with Spain or Colombia, but also with the European Union are endangered? This situation will be more and more complicated as the trial goes on; defendants of (Basque terrorist group) ETA and the FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces) give their testimony, as well as security corps of Spain and Colombia. I think that some issues that compromise the situation of the Venezuelan government before the European Union and the international community will arise. In the case of the European Union, because they label the ETA and FARC as terrorist organizations and an action against a member country is regarded as harmful to remaining member states. In addition, in the event of a short trial, Spain holds the presidency of the European Union....
The year is 1847 and the conflict between Mexico and the USA was for sovereign authority. Is that still the case today?
The bigger picture demands an analysis that goes beyond the drug cartels, after Governor Perry wants to secede from the lower 48 states with allies that stretch into Alaska. One has to wonder how this mess ever started in the first place.
Who is tapping into the drug cartel profits, why is there still sufficient ammunition in this war on drugs? Why is the USA targeted? And what if anything does the Tea Bagger 'network' have to do with any of this and does it have a greater potential to cause violence in the USA?
3 with ties to U.S. Consulate killed in Mexico (click title to entry - thank you)
Monday, March 15, 2010
They also killed the husband of another consular employee and wounded his two young children.
The shootings appeared to be the first deadly attacks on U.S. officials and their families by Mexico's powerful drug organizations. They came during a particularly bloody weekend when nearly 50 people were killed around the country in drug-gang violence....
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The crashed car of a U.S. Consulate employee and her husband sits near the Santa Fe international bridge to El Paso in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, after the two were shot to death. (Associated Press / March 14, 2010)
MEXICO UNDER SIEGE
