Assassination of governor confirmed. FARC scum

[Bacchus39]

http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/justicia/piden-que-secuestro-de-gobernador-de-caqueta-no-afecte-liberacion-de-dos-militares_6823447-1

Spanish. if you can read the comments.

[bemildred]

1. Colombia says rebels murder kidnapped governor

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia said on Tuesday FARC guerrillas slit a state governor's throat hours after they kidnapped him during a brazen raid in one of worst rebel strikes during President Alvaro Uribe's government.

The kidnapping of Luis Cuellar, the Caqueta state governor, underscored how Latin America's oldest insurgency remains capable of high-profile attacks despite being battered to its weakest level in decades by Uribe's U.S.-backed offensive.

Armed rebels, dressed in military uniforms, blasted through the door of Cuellar's house in a southern Colombian city late on Monday, killed a police guard and dragged the governor away from his wife and into a waiting jeep.

Cuellar's body was found on Tuesday as troops scoured the remote jungle in hopes of rescuing him. The kidnapping was a reminder of the darker days of Colombia's conflict when lawmakers were easy prey for rebel squads.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BM08Q20091223

[Peace Patriot]

2. So say the "scum" running the Colombian government and military.

"Armed rebels, dressed in military uniforms...".

They see 'em? They catch em? They fingerprint 'em, and run 'em through their US-supplied "Total Information Awareness" database? They strip 'em and ID 'em as "FARC" with tattoos? They have the murderers in one of their torture dungeons "confessing"?

No. None of these these things. They have no proof whatsoever that these WEREN'T Colombian soldiers.

And you know when Rotters runs off at the mouth like this--"The kidnapping was a reminder of the darker days of Colombia's conflict when lawmakers were easy prey for rebel squads."--that something's not right. This is likely a propaganda stickup for more gringo dinero. Got to impress those US senators to stuff more billions into the pockets of war profiteers and the big drug lords--in the government and the military!

1. Very, very unlikely that the FARC would successfully kidnap such a high profile hostage, and waste all that effort by killing him. The FARC keep hostages alive for years in the jungle. They kept Ingrid Betancourt, for instance, for half a decade. They still hold some hundreds of lesser known hostages in FARC camps. They bargain with hostages--for prisoner exchanges, or for political advantage for instance in suing for peace. They don't kill hostages. It would gain them nothing.

2. Who does this killing benefit? It benefits US puppet Uribe in his bid for a third term because "the commie FARC scum are still out there" and he's gonna git 'em, yes he is. It benefits the military to 'justify' escalating their "scorched earth" tactics--"cleansing" Colombian farmland of small peasant farmers, for use by the big drug lords, Monsanto, Occidental Petroleum and the Pentagon, and it benefits the Pentagon in its war strategy against Venezuela. Rotters: The "dark days" of "Colombia's conflict" (i.e., war on the poor) are BACK. Get it? More war booty. More death. More "cleansing."

3. Another possibility is that this was a rightwing death squad/gang rival "hit"--an internecene squabble among the death squads that are tied to the military and the governor's own drug gang. Colombia's officialdom is filthy with drug, weapons and other trafficking. And whoever the "hit" is convenient for, the "authorities" are using it, on the the basis of zip evidence--and evidence to the contrary (the kidnappers were wearing military uniforms)--to blame the FARC for political and dinero purposes.

4. The FARC is a political guerilla army. When they do something, they announce it. They have been completely silent on this murder.

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I'm not saying the FARC didn't kill the governor. I'm saying I don't know and it doesn't make a lot of sense. And--unlike Rotters--I have ZERO trust in anything the Colombian government or military says.

[Peace Patriot]

3. Murdered governor was the target of an investigation of rightwing para killings!

Posted by rabs here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x28327

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Murky kidnapping, assassination gets even murkier

Found this on a Colombian website. Don't know whether the gringo media has it yet.

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-- Cuéllar was elected in October 2008 as governor and had been kidnapped four times previously. (Each time ransom was paid by the family.)

-- A year ago Colombia's Attorney General opened a preliminary investigation against Gov. Cuéllar and Patricia Farfàn, the mayor of Florencia (capital of Caquetá province) for their presumed links to paramilitary groups.

-- The investigation was sparked after testimony by Luis Alberto Medina, a "demobilized" paramilitary of the Caquetá Bloc, who said both Cuéllar and Farfán were allies of the AUC (paramilitary groups).

-- Another "demobilized" para, Juan Carlos Claros, from the "Heroes of the Andaquíes" paramilitary bloc, confessed on 12 June 2009 that two other paras, "Quini" and "Tiberio" had hidden 300 camouflage uniforms at the governor ranch in October 2005.

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Chatter on comments sections in the Colombian newspapers are saying that Cuéllar may have been taken by paramilitaries to keep him from talking should he have to testify. His death also gave the uribistas an opportunity to blame the FARC and that has gone around the world without solid confirmation.

The kidnappers, in army camouflage uniforms, were able to penetrate a heavily militarized region and escape with no apparent difficulty.

So far it is presumed that the FARC was responsible, but this information of an investigation above only generates more questions. FARC has been quiet about the affair.

A side affect of uribito's order issued last night for a military rescue of the governor and all the other FARC hostages is that it halted all negotiations for the impending release of two soldiers. The International Red Cross said it was suspending its efforts immediately.

Families of the hostages today said that any rescue attempt by the military could equal a death sentence for the captives. The relatives are afraid the FARC could execute the hostages if troops are detected nearby their jungle camps.

For readers of Spanish
http://www.primerapagina.com.co/MostrarDocumentoPublico.aspx?id=1234891

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Looks to me like the "scum" governor (Bacchus39's word for the FARC) got kidnapped and offed by his own "scum" associates in the Colombian government and military, to help keep a lid on their scumbag drug, weapons and other illicit trafficking and mass murder of innocents and "cleansing" of large areas of Colombia of peasant farmers. And blaming it on the FARC helps to fill their pockets with US taxpayer dollars as well--and, hey, they're gonna get SEVEN new US military bases in Colombia to help them kill more of their own people, and maybe a lot of Venezuelans, if they can keep that fuzzy, mesmerizing, brainwashing impression out there that the problem in Colombia is the FARC and not the Colombian military and its death squads (--which, according to Amnesty International, are responsible for 92% of the thousands of murders of union leaders in Colombia, and 75% of overall extrajudicial murders).

It makes no sense that the FARC did this. It makes a lot of sense that the "scum" running Colombia killed one of their own.

[Moderate Democrat]

4. Really?

The FARC admitted murdering the governor. I do not understand liberals condemning violence by, say, paramilitary organizations or center-right governments, while at the same time romanticizing or flat-out denying atrocities committed by leftist groups.

[AlphaCentauri]

5. what's the name of the FARC official who admitted the murder?

I'm quiet lost here