2009-07-21 01:56:58 - The Colombian FARC guerrilla group contributed money Ecuador President Correa's 2006 election campaign, a top rebel is seen as saying on a video reportedly seized from a suspected insurgent. Ecuador has immediately denied the claim, calling it a right-wing "systematic campaign" at the regional level to "destabilize progressive governments."

VHeadline.com commentarist Kenneth T. Tellis writes:

Now let's break down the whole episode of the seized tapes that the US Special Forces and the Colombian army supposedly captured at the FARC encampment on sovereign Ecuadoran territory in March 2008.

While the Colombian government may say anything it wants to, these tapes taken illegally?

If so, then they can not be used in evidence as they had been obtained unlawfully. Secondly, who is to say whether these tapes were doctored to suit the situation by the Colombian government after they invaded and illegally seized them on Ecuadoran soil?

About the undated video, and all that talk of FARC's top commander, Jorge Briceno Suarez, known as "Mono Jojoy," confirming the death of FARC's leader

and founder, Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, who passed away in March 2008, could all be doctored tapes. The reason for my doubts as to authenticity is that present government of Colombia has been in bed with the United States of America for such a long time, that it could have been aided by them in the manufacture of these spurious tapes.

In law, all evidence gathered by illegal means can not be used, because it has no validity whatsoever.

No one can claim that evidence obtained by the illegal invasion of Ecuador in March 2008, has any value, because all this was not revealed before and thus gave the Alvaro Uribe Velez government of Colombia the time that it needed to doctor the seized tapes.

As for Interpol's claim that the computers were really the property of Raul Reyes, that is questionable, because INTERPOL has always been played like a fiddle by the United States into doing whatever the US government wants it to do.

So, no one should put much faith in INTERPOL either ... because INTERPOL should order Colombian former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos to surrender to Ecuadoran authorities for trial immediately.

Refusal by INTERPOL to carry out that will really mean it is being manipulated by the US government and therefore cannot be trusted.

Kenneth T. Tellis
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