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...page Angostura report provides further evidence that Gustavo Larrea, who has held positions as Interior and Security Minister under Correa, had direct links to the FARC, along with José Ignacio Chauvín, briefly his deputy in the Interior Ministry, and Maria Augusta Calle, a television journalist and currently a legislator for Correa's Alianza PAIS political movement. All deny supporting the guerrillas. At the same time, however, the report is certain to come under scrutiny for the way it insulates Correa from blame. (It also finds no wrongdoing by any of his current officials.) "If we have pedophile...
...report also says the U.S. may have supported Colombia's attack logistically with information from a mysterious Hercules C-130 flight at the time of the raid from a U.S. base at Manta, Ecuador, which has since been closed. U.S. Ambassador Heather Hodges has denied any such involvement. Yesterday, the House of Representatives approved a 12-month extension of trade preferences for Ecuadorian goods linked to the country's cooperation in fighting narcotics smuggling. (Read "Ecuador vs. Chevron: Do the Videos Implicate the Judge...
...numerous drug labs near the borders with Colombia and Peru as well as on farms deep inside the South American country, including one just west of the capital, Quito. René Vargas Pazzos, a retired general and former ambassador to Venezuela, rented a farm to a FARC commander, the report says. As a result, Huerta warned that Ecuador faces the same corrosive influence from the drug trade that neighboring Colombia has suffered for decades...
...find evidence of FARC donations to Correa's 2006 election campaign. According to Correa's now-estranged brother Fabricio, who managed the campaign, the rebels' offer of a donation was rejected. It is up to Ecuador's Prosecutor General's Office to investigate any crimes related to the report; however, in the 21 months since the attack, it has dragged its heels, Huerta said...
...Even the Imam Khomeini Works Institute, situated in downtown Tehran and dedicated to preserving the writings and speeches of Khomeini, criticized state television for inappropriately airing the video. The institute is headed by none other than Khomeini's grandson Hassan, a quiet supporter of the Green Movement. An unconfirmed report out of Iran says that police have arrested one suspect in the poster-tearing incident. (See pictures of the long shadow of Ayatullah Khomeini...