The Riobamba Munitions Explosion–More than Meets the Eye?
Had an interesting chat last weekend with an American woman who lives in Riobamba. She says the word on the street is that the military munitions explosion that killed seven people there last November was no accident.
People are speculating that the blast was orchestrated by the miliary to cover up the fact that they’d sold small arms to the FARK, Colombia’s most powerful rebel group. Apparently something like 70,000 grenades were missing, and so, the theory goes, the army blew up a warehouse to hide the evidence. Supposedly an Ecuadorian Congressman is spearheading an investigation; my initial Web research hasn’t turned anything up. I’m interested in learning more.