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### Viewing cable 08QUITO228, ECUADORIAN TROOP MOVEMENTS, FARC CAPTURES, FOL

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08QUITO228 | 2008-03-07 22:10 | 2011-04-06 00:12 | SECRET | Embassy Quito

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    date: 3/7/2008 22:35
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    S E C R E T QUITO 000228

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/06/2014
    TAGS: PREL MOPS PTER EC CO MX SP
    SUBJECT: ECUADORIAN TROOP MOVEMENTS, FARC CAPTURES, FOL
    INVESTIGATION

    REF: QUITO 221

    Classified By: CDA Jefferson Brown for Reasons 1.4 (b&d)

    ¶1.  (S) SUMMARY.  Ecuador's Fourth Division Army Commander
    Narvaez confirmed on March 4 that he had modestly increased
    border zone deployments but was operating fairly normally,
    and that the Division's primary mission was still to pursue
    the FARC. Five suspected FARC insurgents were captured near
    the site of the Colombian operation on March 6.   Colombian
    accusations about Correa administration's FARC contacts have
    caused some within the military to be concerned about
    possible removal of some military leaders, including Narvaez.
     Several of the individuals killed in the March 1 attack
    appear to have been Mexican, including at least one of the
    survivors currently in a Quito military hospital. 50% of
    Ecuadorian poll respondents did not agree with the GOE
    decision to cut of diplomatic relations with Colombia.  The
    Constituent Assembly is considering calls for an
    investigation into whether the Manta Forward Operating
    Location was involved in supporting the Colombian operation.
    END SUMMARY.

    MILITARY UPDATE

    ¶2.  (S) USG representatives have met over the past few days
    with Brigadier General Fabian Edmundo Narvaez, commander of
    the Ecuadorian Army's Fourth Division (which includes the
    area of the Reyes incident).  Narvaez has been an aggressive
    commander, increasing patrols and operations, and very
    receptive to USG support.  He did not appear to have changed
    his attitude, nor did he demonstrate anger over the GOC's
    operation against the FARC.  He seemed to remain committed to
    pursuing the FARC.  Narvaez confirmed that approximately 150
    soldiers from the Fourth Division converged on the site of
    the Colombian operation in northern Ecuador, some to assess
    the site and others to look for evidence of other FARC
    presence.  The Ecuadorian Navy sent three corvette warships
    to the maritime border with Colombia as a show of force.

    ¶3.  (S) The Fourth Division, comprised of 4,500 troops, has
    relocated its operating headquarters from Coca, Orellana
    province, to the 24th Special Forces Group in Lago Agrio,
    Sucumbios province, closer to the border.  According to
    Narvaez, the Fourth Division is pursuing the FARC actively,
    as it has in a series of concerted operations since last
    November.  Amid recriminations for the GOE,s failure to
    locate and destroy the Reyes camp, some in the military fear
    that Narvaez will be (unfairly, in his case) made a scapegoat
    and relieved of his command (note: many believe he is one of
    the officers whose replacement appeared to be part of the
    negotiation that Larrea conducted with Reyes, as cited in the
    post-op captured documents).  Other military officers have
    expressed resentment regarding President Correa's handling of
    the situation and concern about the Colombian accusations
    that the Correa administration may replace military
    leadership as part of negotiations with the FARC.

    RECOVERY AND CAPTURE OF FARC

    ¶4.  (C) The Fourth Division relocated the 22 bodies and the
    three wounded from the FARC camp to Quito on March 3 and 4,
    the wounded currently in a military hospital.  (Two others,
    including Raul Reyes, were previously removed by the
    Colombian military.)  Ecuadorian leaders, in seeking to build
    their case against the GOC action in terms of international
    law and convention, have asserted that some of the bodies
    reveal shots in the back.  Accompanying this argument is
    criticism that the Colombian forces left wounded individuals
    behind.  Among the three female survivors, Lucia Andrea
    Morett Alvarez, a Mexican national whose parents came to
    Quito to visit her on March 6, claimed no ties to the FARC,
    whereas another, Martha Perez, admitted to the press that she
    had been a FARC insurgent for one year.  No decision has yet
    been announced about how the GOE intends to handle these
    detainees, as officials say only that an investigation must
    first proceed.  Minister of Coordination of Internal and
    External Security Gustavo Larrea claimed publicly on March 7
    that five other Mexican nationals were at the FARC camp at
    the time of the attack, and "may have died."  An embassy

    source informed that one body already recovered from the site
    had a Mexican passport and is presumed to be a Mexican
    national.

    ¶5.  (SBU) On March 6, two additional bodies were discovered
    approximately 800 meters from the site of the Colombian
    operation.  That same day, the Ecuadorian military captured
    five presumed FARC members.  Minister Larrea announced that
    "the insurgents were detained in the Chanangue river, that
    opens into the San Miguel river, a few meters from the
    Colombian border."

    PROTESTS AND PUBLIC OPINION

    ¶6.  (SBU) Demonstrations have taken place in Quito during the
    week following the Colombian incursion, most passing in front
    of the Colombian embassy.  Most have been limited to just a
    few hundred; most have been directed against the Colombian
    action but some have also been against the FARC.  On the
    evening of March 6, approximately 1,200 participants
    demonstrated peacefully in front of the U.S. embassy,
    chanting anti-U.S. and anti-Colombian slogans.  Ecuadorian
    authorities prevented a smaller protest group from reaching
    the U.S. embassy earlier in the day.  A larger, government
    sponsored demonstration is planned for March 13.

    ¶7.  (C) The GOE, seeking to ensure domestic support,
    organized a large meeting with civil society representatives
    on March 5, where it made a detailed presentation on the
    March 1 events.  Our contacts in the government and academia
    have expressed a range of views on the prospects for
    repairing the rupture.  MFA North America DG Santiago Chavez
    was by far the most optimistic, expressing his (apparently
    personal) view that things could be patched together over the
    next few weeks.  Professor Grace Jaramillo of the Latin
    American Social Sciences Faculty (FLACSO) was far more
    pessimistic; she told us that the determinant whether Ecuador
    would shift permanently to a position closer to Chavez would
    be U.S. willingness to condemn Colombia's violation of
    Ecuadorian sovereignty.

    ¶8.  (C) Many of our contacts, while supporting Correa's
    position on the incursion, have expressed regret at the break
    in diplomatic relations with Colombia.  For example, NGO
    Citizen Participation Executive Director Ruth Hidalgo told us
    it was unfortunate given all that the Ecuadorian and
    Colombian people have in common.  A Cedatos poll found that
    50% of respondents did not agree with the break in diplomatic
    relations.  Commentators have noted that Ecuador did not
    break off relations with Peru even during two wars they
    fought in the last 20 years.  Specifically consular functions
    have apparently been allowed to continue.

    FOL INVESTIGATION BY ASSEMBLY

    ¶9.  (C) Alberto Acosta and other Constituent Assembly leaders
    have stated that the Assembly's Committee on Sovereignty,
    International Relations, and Latin American Integration will
    decide whether to investigate if the U.S. Forward Operating
    Location (FOL) was involved in supporting the Colombian
    attack on March 1 (reftel).  The Constituent Assembly sent a
    letter on March 6 to the FOL Commander requesting information
    on flights originating from the FOL.  The Embassy is working
    to communicate transparency, stressing that the FOL flight
    arrival and departure information is available from the
    Ecuadorian civil aviation agency that mans the Manta airport
    control tower, as well as through the Ecuadorian liaison
    officer stationed at JIATF-South.  On March 6, thirteen
    opposition Assembly members visited the FOL and received a
    full tour and command briefing.

    QUITO BOLIVARIAN CONGRESS TIES TO FARC

    ¶10.  (S) There is reason to suspect that some of those in the
    Raul Reyes camp at the time of the Colombian attack had
    entered Ecuador to attend the Second Bolivarian Continental
    Congress in Quito February 24-27.  At least two passports
    recovered from the attack site show that the insurgents
    entered Ecuador shortly before the Bolivarian Congress.  The
    Bolivarian Congress was also attended by three Basque

    Homeland and Freedom (ETA) members from Spain.  A video
    address by Raul Reyes was played at the beginning of the
    Congress.  The FARC helped sponsor and fund the event by
    paying the $4,200 deposit on the Culture House, the venue.
    The Caribbean Bloc Coordinator of the Bolivarian Continental
    Coordinator, Luciano Marin Arango (aka Ivan Marquez), passed
    the funds for the Congress through Audrey Millot, a known
    French FARC affiliate.

    ¶11.  (C) Maria Augusta Calle, President of the sovereignty
    committee in the Constituent Assembly, signed a petition
    along with numerous others requesting the use of the Culture
    House for the Bolivarian Congress.  An article in the March 6
    edition of the weekly Vistazo magazine shows photos of Calle
    with the daughter of Raul Reyes, Lidia Carmenza Devia
    Collazos, who it said had been living in El Quinche,
    northeast of Quito.  In the article, Calle was quoted as
    saying she had met many people as a journalist but denying
    any knowledge of contact with Reyes' daughter.
    BROWN

    =======================CABLE ENDS============================

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