How Hugo Chavez Courted FARC

[hack89]

Source: SPIEGEL

They called him "Angel." He was the highest-ranking outside contact for the Colombian guerrilla organization FARC. More and more details are now emerging that demonstrate the close relationship between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the jungle terrorists.

Experts estimate that at least one-third of all cocaine from Colombia is smuggled to Europe and the United States through Venezuela, with the authorities apparently turning a blind eye to the activities. According to government sources in Bogota, Colombian soldiers at a military base on the border observe dozens of planes carrying drug transports in neighboring Venezuela on a daily basis.

In addition, Chavez apparently provided thousands of Colombians, including many of the guerillas, with Venezuelan papers. Intelligence agencies fear that senior members of FARC have also traveled to Germany using Venezuelan passports -- tourists from Chavez's Venezuela are given more lax treatment when entering the country than Colombians.

Chavez also apparently helped the FARC rebels obtain weapons by putting them in touch with two Australian arms dealers. His intelligence agents promised FARC that they would get them parts to build surface-to-air missiles. In an e-mail to Reyes on March 1, 2007, FARC commander Timochenko wrote that the Venezuelans would "guarantee travel for one of our men to the Middle East, so that he can take a course in the use of the missiles." The purchase of complete weapons systems, Timochenko wrote, is "very complicated, because of the existing inspections."

Read more: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,557736,00.html

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Good picture of Raul Reyes working with his now infamous laptop

[Pavulon]

1. You would be better off promoting the KKK than question

the wisdom of jesus christ incarnate chavez..

Seriously this guy walks on water to his followers.

[angstlessk]

2. no...to his detractors he is the devil incarnate....let Judi et all explain it you..since

yall hate democracy and prefer plutocracy

[AlphaCentauri]

9. After all the KKK uses the Bible to hate and republicans to kill communist

anybody feel any remorse about all those dead in latinamerica in the hands of the right wing nuts.

[prolifedemq]

20. I feel more remorse for those dead from the hands of left wing nuts.

As they largely outnumber the other figure.

[EFerrari]

23. Enjoy your stay at DU.

[ronnie624]

18. Chavez's "followers" simply respect the sovereignty of other nations.

You and the other reactionaries who post on DU are reduced to making such foolish statements because you have no evidence with which to support your bizarre and obsessive campaign of vilification.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Continuing "news" story from Germany.

In the last episode the subject was the laptop information, since discredited, at which time Der Spiegal published this drivel : http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,555176,00.html

[hack89]

4. Self delete nt

[dipsydoodle]

6. I've corrected that.

Sometimes they use day/month/year and others they use month/day/year.

Don't change the fact that their Venezuala articles are drivel.

[hack89]

8. Of course they are

the fact that they don't support your world view is proof enough of their bias. :eyes:

[AlphaCentauri]

10. The fact that those "news" are more opinions than facts just make them propaganda

[TroubleMan]

5. LOL. This is all from the "magic laptop" that Interpol said Colombia tampered with.

This has been debunked.

[dipsydoodle]

7. You know that and I know that

Unfortately some others have been asleep for the past two weeks or so.

[Name removed]

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[AlphaCentauri]

13. 75% of murders in colombia are linked to the government

[prolifedemq]

21. Care to provide proof?

Or just more BS from Chavez sympathizers?

[prolifedemq]

22. Care to provide proof?

Or just more BS from Chavez sympathizers?

[buckrogers1965]

12. United States trying to overthrow another democracy? Again...

This is why people hate us.

Let's just grin and bear it and play nice when people are elected that we don't like.

Actually trying to overthrow them and kill them and really ineffectively trying to frame them with bogus laptop data just makes us look like douche bags.

[Andrushka]

14. Two points:

1) Not LBN
2) Load of BS ("Angel"? Not Chavez. Nice hack job, Herr Glüsing. Yeah - they'd really use "Angel" and Chavez's real name in the same document.)

[subsuelo]

15. Right.

:eyes:

[frylock]

16. yeahhhhh... about that "infamous laptop"

http://www.alternet.org/audits/86642

[JohnnyCougar]

17. Nothing but a bunch of debunked malarkey.

Nothing to see here. These arguments are months old, and have largely been laughed out of the public debate.

[bitchkitty]

19. Another load of crap from the tool brigade. Thanks, I was

momentarily diverted.