Dozens of e-mails in the rebel computers show that the FARC
commanders and Chávez were building what they referred to as a
''strategic relationship'' to strengthen the Bolivarian movement in the region.There are at least eight references to an estimated $300
million in financial assistance that Chávez had pledged to the FARC rebels. In addition, the e-mails show that the FARC had agreed to give military training in irregular warfare to the Venezuelan army, and that the Colombian rebels even had an ''office'' at Fuerte Tiuna, the headquarters of Venezuela's military command in Caracas.''The strategy was to create an international mediation group fashioned after the Contadora group that mediated in the Central American conflict in the 1980s, but aimed at consolidating Chávez's leadership in the region, and at using Chávez's clout to achieve international diplomatic recognition for the FARC,'' a senior Colombian official told me in an interview last week.
So what do we do about it? We know he is sponsoring terrorism, in effect making war on a neighboring country through the most despicable methods, and the "Human Rights Community" says nothing? Oh wait, they did manage to chirp something about the terrorists Geneva Convention rights may have been violated. Good thing they are on the case.
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Sunday, July 06, 2008
So What do we do about it?
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