Hugo Chavez Gave $300 Million to FARC
Filed under: Colombia, Ecuador, FARC, Hugo Chavez, South America, Venezuela — Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief on March 4, 2008 @ 4:00 pm CET
My, my. It seems that the Savior of South America - Hugo Chavez - is in bed with terrorists. According to a CNN report Chavez “recently gave the FARC $300 million.” As if that’s not enough, “evidence in three seized computers also suggests FARC had given Chavez 100 million pesos when he was a jailed rebel leader.”
O, and to make matters even worse, Colombia’s national police chief said Monday that “other evidence in the computers suggests FARC purchased 50 kilograms of uranium this month.”
Colombia’s president Uribe said: “The revelations about agreements between the terrorist group FARC and the governments of Ecuador and Venezuela will be submitted to the Organization of American States and the United Nations.”
Furthermore, ‘Naranjo said the evidence also shows that Ecuador’s minister of security met recently with Reyes, and that Ecuador had “an interest in formalizing relations with the FARC,” according to an account published on a Colombian government Web site.’
Ecuador and Venezuela, meanwhile, have brought their troops to the borders and are threatening to use force against the democratically elected government of Colombia… Which is backed by the United States.
Hugo Chavez is funding a terrorist group, or so says the evidence, per CNN. Now we know why he’s so upset. It’s the feigned outrage of a war-mongering leader possibly conducting violent economic sabotage against the strongest U.S. ally in Latin America. Chavez has not answered the charges.
Whether the military would go along Chavez’s plan and create a Falklands Islands-like diversion from Venezuela’s increasingly dire internal situation is anyone’s guess. But surely it would take more than Chavez’s rants to bring about an international incident.
Washington Times: South America is on the brink of war.
1 Miguel
March 4, 2008 @ 4:45 pm CETCorrales of Ecuador: President Uribe, there are no FARC in Ecuador
Uribe of Colombia: Mr. President thank you for your honesty. Corrales: We promise to tell you if the Farc is here.
Uribe: Gracias Uribe: Mr. Corrales, after they killed more civilians, we chased guerillas into your territory, found a camp and blew it up.
Corrales: Tell me more, as I had no idea they were here.
Uribe: We killed Raul Reyes, a murdering extortionist who dealt drugs from your country.
Corrales: You massacred these peaceful socialists while they slept in their underwear. Everyone knows guerrillas cannot shoot their guns while in their underwear. You are lying.
Uribe: We have the computers with letters about your government’s support of these terrorists. We know your high officials met with the FARC and you support the FARC
Corrales: You lie. The computers were prepared by you. These people were not terrorists. Ask Hugo Chavez. We never had contact with Reyes.
Uribe: We have photos.
Corrales: Colombia is not Socialist. They interfered with our secret plan to negotiate with the peaceful FARC. We were trying to get kidnapped victims … er guests of the FARC checked out from their luxurious accommodations. Now, they must overstay their reservations. We met with them secretly for only one purpose, transportation from the Hotel FARC, a luxurious jungle accommodation with durable neck chains and 3 square meals per week to Hugo Chavez, who would put on a circus in Caracas.
Uribe: Why does the FARC release the hostages one by one. They have hundreds. Release them all.
Corrales: You have stepped on my land and have shown disregard for the negotiations we have secretly engaged in. We are simply trying to 1) free, er check out the guests, 2) ship cocaine and 3) take bribes. Wait, wait, I did not mean those last 2 things.
Uribe: Are you taking cocaine with Hugo?
Corrales: I am going to get the other members of my club together and will talk to the media.
Uribe: Who will believe you?
Corrales: Believe? Only those who have a faith in the true god, socialistic fascism, which I support.
Uribe: Name one.
Corrales: The international left doesn’t yet admit Saddam Hussein used WMD’s on his own people. Believe me, our followers will deny evidence and support us no matter what. And, we can cry louder than you.
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3 David
March 4, 2008 @ 9:23 pm CETIt looks like the megalomania of Chavez is well on its way to starting a war.
The left are currently trying to work out how the US started it…
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