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Oct
12
2010
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VenEconomy: The Wave Continues to Swell

Farc2 VenEconomy: The Wave Continues to SwellThis article was originally posted by The Latin American Herald

Since the appearance of the computers belonging to Raúl Reyes in 2008, the wave of compromising evidence indicating that the Hugo Chávez administration has ties with the narco-terrorist group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), has not ceased to grow.

Now, this year, new facts have emerged that would seem to corroborate the high level of collaboration maintained by the Venezuelan Government not only with the FARC, but also with terrorist groups such as the National Liberation Front (ELN), and Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA).

On July 22, Álvaro Uribe presented accusations against Hugo Chávez before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and filed a lawsuit against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela before the inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).

Both actions have to do with the alleged presence in Venezuelan territory of some 1,500 FARC narco-terrorists, who apparently orchestrated their terrorist activities in order to later carry them out in Colombia. The accusations are backed by proof in the form of pictures and videos as well as by the testimonies of former guerrillas.

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Aug
5
2010
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US: Venezuela fails to cooperate with counter-terrorism efforts

This article was originally posted by El Universal

Venezuela is still not a reliable partner for the United States in counterterrorism efforts, an area in which Caracas reduced its cooperation with Washington to an “absolute minimum” during the last year, said the US State Department in its new “Country Report on Terrorism,” released on Thursday.

“Venezuela’s cooperation with the United States on terrorism has been reduced to an absolute minimum,” stressed the annual report. The document noted that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez “persisted in his public criticism” of US counterterrorism efforts, and “continued to strengthen” relations with countries listed by Washington as sponsors of terrorism, specifically with Iran, DPA reported.The report -released just months after the US State Department ranked Venezuela as “not cooperating fully” in anti-terror efforts- clarified that it remains unclear “how much” help Chávez’s government is providing to Colombian rebel groups such as the FARC or the ELN.

 

In this sense, the document mirrored Colombia’s repeated “complaints” that Chávez’s government is “harboring and helping senior leaders of the FARC in Venezuelan territory.” The latest such complaints was aired a few weeks ago and resulted in a new severance of diplomatic relations between both South American countries.

Among others, the report noted that last December 4 Chávez promoted to high military ranks two men identified as drug dealers by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). They are Hugo Carvajal Barrios and Henry de Jesús Rangel Silva, whom the Venezuelan president promoted to high-ranking generals even though in 2008 they were accused by the OFAC of supporting drug traffic activities of the FARC leaders in the territory of Venezuela.

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Jul
30
2010
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Colombia proves again that Venezuela is harboring FARC terrorists

This article was originally posted bye The Washington Post

COLOMBIA’S PRESENTATION to the Organization of American States about Venezuela’s hosting of the FARC terrorist movement prompted a flurry of speculation about the motives of Álvaro Uribe, Colombia’s outgoing president. Why, it was asked, did he want to end his eight years in office in another confrontation with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez? Could he be trying to sabotage his successor, Juan Manuel Santos, who is due to take office on Aug. 7?

Allow us to offer a simple explanation: Mr. Uribe, who has devoted his presidency to rescuing Colombia from armed gangs of both the left and the right, is deeply frustrated by Venezuela’s continuing support for the FARC — and by the failure of the international community to hold Mr. Chávez accountable for it. Before leaving office, Mr. Uribe felt compelled to make one more effort to call attention to a problem that, were it occurring in the Middle East, would surely be before the U.N. Security Council.

That Venezuela is backing a terrorist movement against a neighboring democratic government has been beyond dispute since at least 2008, when Colombia recovered laptops from a FARC camp in Ecuador containing extensive documentation of Mr. Chávez’s political and material support. Colombia’s presentation to the OAS last week contained fresher and more detailed intelligence. Ambassador Luis Alfonso Hoyos supplied precise map coordinates for several of the 75 FARC camps that he said had been established on Venezuelan territory and that harbor some 1,500 militants. He showed photos and videos, including one of a top commander from another Colombian terrorist organization, ELN, sipping Venezuelan beer on a popular Venezuelan beach.

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