[news] Ingrid Betancourt Released: Dangerous Times Ahead

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By Justin Podur - July, 03 2008

[Colombian President] Uribe was completely confident in his own popularity...before Ingrid Betancourt was freed in an operation by his army...Now, whether FARC continues on its path of mistakes and moral failures or whether it releases its hostages and comes to the negotiating table, Uribe will benefit politically. The idea that his regime is based on purchased votes, paramilitary violence, selling the country's assets to multinationals, will be lost in tales of the heroism of an operation that bloodlessly saved an innocent and long-suffering hostage.   


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