Time – Ecuador Officials Linked to Colombia Rebels
Date: Dec 16, 2009
“Several former officials of the Ecuadorian government had ties with Colombia’s Marxist guerrillas, a commission named by President Rafael Correa conceded Tuesday. The announcement is sure to stir up new questions about how deeply South America’s political left, including Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, has aided a rebel force condemned worldwide as drug traffickers and terrorists. And it raises the risk, said the commission’s coordinator, Francisco Huerta, that Ecuador is “becoming a narco-democracy.””
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