Venezuelan-FARC Ties Closer Than Originally Thought
Pictured: FARC. Armed by Venezuela?
JACKSONVILLE, Florida — President George W. Bush said Tuesday the alleged links between Venezuela and Colombia’s leftist FARC rebels were “closer” than previously thought and backed Bogota’s investigation into the matter.
Without referring to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez — a US nemesis since he was elected 10 years ago — Bush for the first time mentioned Colombia’s probe of the computer files it found in a FARC rebel camp it raided inside Ecuador on March 1.
“Recently, when Colombian forces killed one of the FARC’s most senior leaders, they discovered computer files that suggest even closer ties between Venezuela’s regime and FARC terrorists than we previously knew,” he said in a speech in Jacksonville, Florida.
“Colombian officials are investigating the ties but this much should be clear: the United States strongly supports, strongly stands with Colombia in its fight against the terrorists and drug lords,” Bush said, implicitly backing Bogota’s probe.
After a week-long row over the cross-border raid between Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela — which took Ecuador’s side and sent troops to its border with Colombia — Bogota said the found documents showed Venezuela had given 300 million dollars to FARC.
Bogota said it would take Chavez to the International Criminal Court for allegedly financing the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group.
Chavez’s leftist regime sympathises with FARC and its cause, and has asked it be given “belligerent status”, but the United States and Europe considers it a terrorist group.
Reiterating his anti-Chavez criticism in a speech last week, Bush said Venezuela “has railed against America, has forged an alliance with communist Cuba, has met with FARC leaders in Venezuela, has deployed troops to the Colombian border.
“In the process, regime leaders have squandered their oil wealth and left their people to face food shortages.”
Chavez shot back on Sunday calling Bush a “terrorist” responsible for “genocide,” and said Venezuelans “today are better fed than ever.”
Bush on Tuesday also recalled that FARC had been holding three Americans hostage since 2003, when their plane was captured, noting they were “the longest-held American hostages anywhere in the world.”
(AFP)
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March 19th, 2008 at 9:43 amThats where we need a couple airstrikes with Napalm. FARC is a cancer on this earth right along with Hugo Chavez.
March 19th, 2008 at 9:47 amto Mr Chavez :
The frog that wished to be as big as the ox
The tenant of a bog
An envious little frog,
Not bigger than an egg,
A stately bullock spies,
And, smitten with his size,
Attempts to be as big.
With earnestness and pains,
She stretches, swells and strains,
And says, sis frog, look here ! see me !
Is this enough ? No, no.
Well, then, is this ? Poh ! Poh !
Enough ! You don’t begin to be,
And thus the reptile sits,
Enlarging till she splits.
The world is full of folks
Of just such wisdom ; –
The lordly dome provokes
The cit to built his dome ;
And, really, there is no telling
How much great men sit little once swelling.
LA FONTAINE fables
March 19th, 2008 at 11:25 amLost in translation!
March 19th, 2008 at 3:28 pmFranchie, are you a hot Yvette type of a woman?
March 19th, 2008 at 3:29 pmthe translation isn’t from me nor google
Dave, who is Yvette ?
March 19th, 2008 at 3:53 pmhttp://img512.imageshack.us/img512/3134/thfdrm33dq0.jpg
there I am
March 20th, 2008 at 4:16 am