US involvement in Columbian raid into Ecuador
This, my friends is a comedy of errors from which ever angle you want to look at.
Ecuador is right about being mad for Colombian entering their territory in a military action to kill one of the leaders of the FARCs.
Colombia is fed up with the support (f not economical, at least they let them work) that Ecuador and Venezuela give to the FARC. They broke international law intentionally, letting the message clear that they will not tolerate the position of Venezuela and Ecuador, who want to recognize the FARCs as a revolutionary movement, not what they really are.
There is U.S. involvement on both sides of the conflict. You follow the money and you will understand. The colombian guerrilla has trascendeded politics, they are more of a criminal organization that support themselves with drug and ransom money, all to buy weapons from.... you guess it right.
The biggest complain of Mexico (as an example) right now with the US is to keep the weapons market close, the drug cartels are feeding themselves in trades of american weapons, traded from the US, and this deteriorates the state of law in different areas.
Police and military of this countries just can't keep with the spending of these drug cartels and guerrillas, they just don't have the money.