Documents have been recovered by Colombian soldiers that belong to FARC show that Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has been cooperating with them in trying to undermine the current Colombian government.
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is a man who craves attention and is intent on exporting his brand of socialism to other Latin American nations. U.S. intelligence sources have been provided with copies of electronic documents that purport involvement between Chavez and FARC. FARC is a left-leaning and drug-funded group that is hellbent on overthrowing the current Colombian government.
Colombian soldiers have obtained computerized files linking Chavez with FARC. Interpol is conducting a forensic audit of the files. Results should be obtained sometime next week by the Colombian government. However, some of the results have already been confirmed by other Latin American countries in their battle with FARC. A FARC safe house has been raided by Costa Rican police and the Ecuadoran interior minister has verified secret meeting detailson the captured laptop computers.
In an ironic twist, FARC has denied any meetings or communications with the Venezuelan government. They didn't use their own type of communication but listed the denial on the Venezuelan information ministry's website. They also claim that no computer data could have survived a raid on a FARC enclave in Ecuador that occurred in March of this year.
Interestingly, a team of American physicists conducted an experiment on a hard drive that was retrieved from the space shuttle Columbia's wreckage. If computer files can survive a fall from outer space and still be readable; it's certainly credible that it can survive a violent firefight.
''An e-mail from 2005 confirms the long-suspected presence of a FARC operations base inside Venezuela, one that supported 370 insurgents and was led by a senior FARC commander.'' Some other e-mails describe Venezuela's intelligence community's efforts to smuggle shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles and rocket-propelled grenades to FARC.
One document also claims that the Venezuelan government promised a $25 billion loan to FARC once they acquired power in Colombia. FARC is considered a terrorist organization by the laws of Canada and the United States.
FARC was founded in 1964. They have been involved and implicated in urban-style terrorism against civilians; killing hundreds of peasants execution-style; highway robberies, air hijackings; assassinations of elected legislators and they have used landmines to kill Colombian soldiers in their territory.
