Latinnews Daily - 13 August 2003

The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff , General Richard Myers, seems to have bought the tall tale spun by Moisés Roberto Boyer Riobueno. Yesterday, Myers, who is on a trip to Colombia, warned countries against providing `comfort or aid' to outlawed fighters in Colombia's four-decade-old guerrilla war. Boyer, who claimed to be an army lieutenant and pilot, had told a Colombian newspaper, `El Espectador', at the weekend that he had been sent on a mission last year to rescue a sick commander of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia and bring him to Venezuela. Boyer's story has turned out to be a pack of lies, as Venezuelan officials had said from the beginning.  

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