Ecuador confuses the world

C'mon, Homer...think...think!!

Now, if what we're told by the English-speaking press is true, then Colombia is the country trying to be honest and open about this FARC laptop thingy, and Ecuador is trying to hide behind a wall of denial.

If that's so, then why does Ecuador want the international community to fully examine the contents of the laptop, while Colombia has been so reticent in handing them over to a neutral third party? If you're confused, trying considering that what you've been told so far by Fox News and the Miami Herald ain't necessarily so, Joe.

Hat tip to Borev for getting this story out there and making it more interesting than I can manage.

UPDATE 6PM: It didn't take long for Colombians loyal to Presdent Uribe to add their dos centavos worth to the debate. No, not the Colombian gov't, we're talking about Uribe ultra-loyalist attorney Abelardo de la Espriella, who has demanded that President Correa be tried by the International Penal Court. In the words of this joker. he wants to bang up Correa and...

"....those functionaries that have been found by the (FARC) computers to have participated in the events investigated.........all this is with fundamental proof in the information found in those computers that have already been ratified by Interpol."

Y'see, all this bullshit talk goes down really well for its target audience in Colombia, allowing the gov't ample room to avoid explaining to its people why it has been so reluctant to call an independent investigation into the contents of the FARC hardware. The Uribe lawyer also once again fudges the facts and implies that Interpol investigated the contents of the 6.1 gigabytes of files found on the computers. It didn't. All Interpol did was say that they couldn't totally vouch for the integrity of the files. Don't believe me? Well read the report, not some ass who reports what you want to read about the report.