10 May 2011

COLOMBIA / ECUADOR / VENEZUELA : 11 May UPDATE: Venezuela Responds To Book Claiming FARC Financed Correa, Killed Chavez Opponents.

M.HERALD/ J.WYSE

   Documents found in the computer files of a senior FARC commander killed in a 2008 raid detail a relationship between the rebels and Venezuela and Ecuador's governments.
    FARC was allegedly asked to work for Venezuela’s intelligence services.
    They also claim that Colombia’s FARC rebels contributed $400,000 to President Correa’s 2006 presidential bid.
   The documents are contained in a 240-page book “The FARC Files: Venezuela, Ecuador and the Secret Archive of Raúl Reyes,” published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

UPDATE 11 MAY: R. Carroll:
  Venezuela's London embassy called a report linking Hugo Chavez's government to FARC rebels as a "dodgy dossier"...recycling old unfounded allegations.

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/11/venezuela-attacks-chavez-links-farc-files