QUITO, Ecuador — Intelligence obtained by U.S. forces based in Ecuador helped Colombia’s military locate the senior rebel commander killed in a cross-border raid by Colombian troops last year, a government commission said Thursday.
The 131-page report by the special investigative commission also said Ecuador’s then- security minister met with the rebel chief, Raul Reyes, at his camp in Ecuadoran territory three weeks before the attack of March 1, 2008.
The minister, Gustavo Larrea, has denied he met inside Ecuador with Reyes, the No. 2 leader and foreign minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
The Colombian raid, which claimed 25 lives, created an international uproar, with the presidents of Venezuela and Ecuador dispatching thousands of troops to the border. Ecuador has still not restored full diplomatic relations.
