Will War Erupt in South America?

Tensions continue to mount in the three way stand-off between Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela over Colombia's raid to kill FARC leader Raul Reyes. Things are starting to get real messy and if the sabre-rattling does not stop, we may have a real war in South America.

I've been called a commie in the past, and while that is not too far a stretch since I do have some Socialist leanings. However I'm not a supporter of the FARC. I am not a proponent of Marxism-Leninism as the FARC claim to be - mainly because of the changes to the movement Lenin made to make Communism work in Imperial Russia. The FARC are thugs holding onto a out-moded philosophy that kidnap and kill to further their ends - now how does that help the workers? Unless the FARC only count themselves among the Proletariat, I see them fighting in the name of Communism only to receive continued support- and that is part of the current problem.

If evidence retrieved by Colombia's raid into Ecuador is true, then they have evidence that Venezuela's Hugo Chávez is financing the FARC guerrillas. Meanwhile the US finances the Colombian government to help fight FARC and their Drug trafficking allies to the tune of $600 million per year. Call me crazy but this has all the hallmarks of another Proxy War for the United States and a way to get back at Chávez for his rhetoric.