Air travel

Yes there are... see here: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqk08HOkscw]

The tense situation among those Southamerican countries hasn't come to the suspension of air-travel. Hope it doesn't get to that or we'll see passengers travelling via Panama or San Jose or Lima when travelling between Ecuador/Venezuela and Colombia.

So far it's mostly tough language from Chavez. He seems to have an obsession not to miss an opportunity to play the tough guy... any civilized country would have congratulated Colombia on getting those terrorists, even if it was in a brief incursion against a seemingly unguarded border.

As if Oribe is better than F.A.R.C... Ass kisser of Usa and much more. What about his dead squads?

am I alone in wanting to hear more from flanagan??? you couldnt make it up. I cant bring myself to respond to the specifics of your sophisticated argument, but i am left hoping for more. please contribute again if you`re not too busy ironing your (cli)Che Guevara T-shirts.

Chavez true colors shining thru....

Thug!

He feels left out, as if his army and airforce could withstand 30 minutes of USA defences if should use them in Colombia, he would be DOA.

Air travel may not have been suspended BUT my friend just told me that there were bombs going off in and around Medellin. He also witnessed a plane being shot down.

Outrageous... can that be confirmed from other sources?

Reminds me of Venezuela in 1992 when Chavez tried to bomb Caracas with two planes they managed to steal, during his first military coup attempt... they managed to drop one bomb in the backpacker hotel district, not far from the president's palace...

Chavez has been buying military gear to equip a second "parallel" group of army and airforce units, recruited from his supporters, separate from the traditional airforce units which are not very loyal to him. It certainly will make them happy that they have a justification for their existence now.

oh and flanagan... you misspelled the word "death squads".

I won't disagree with you on that, the bad reputation of Colombia for human rights abuses is fully deserved, and the government or its death squads have killed tens of thousands of people illegally, and displaced hundreds of thousands...

However, as to the FARC my opinion is "who takes up the gun, shall die by the gun". It's as simple as that. Anyone who kidnaps people or plants bombs, has lost their right to negotiate.