Obama's security advisor claims that FARC is in Venezuela organizing attacks on Colombia

El Comercio, Quito, Ecuador ^ | 8/6/2009

[marron]

Brasilia, ANSA

General Jim Jones, security advisor to president Barack Obama, said today that members of FARC are in Venezuela organizing attacks on Colombia and the government of Hugo Chavez “is not doing much to combat it”, according to Estado de Sao Paulo.

“We know with some certainty that significant elements of Farc are active inside Venezuela and the Venezuelan government has done little to combat this” declared Jones, who met yesterday in Brasilia with the Brazilian chancellor Celso Amorim.

“Venezuela and other countries in the region have their differences with the United States” and the installation of US bases in Colombia, he said.

“But it is not acceptable that these countries (among them Venezuela) allow their border areas to be used to attack another sovereign country in the region” he said.

Jim Jones refused to reconsider the initiative to base military units in Colombia and said that "the US is helping a friendly country where democracy is trying to survive” against guerrilla attacks and drug trafficking.

[cranked]

I know Holder is proud.

[La Lydia]

He won’t last long. Doesn’t he know his boss is on the Chavez-FARC side?

[marron]

Its no secret that FARC’s bases are in Venezuela, along with their “high value” hostages.

Its just notable that someone in the US government has acknowledged it.

Chavez is FARC, and since the death of Marulanda I would say that FARC is Chavez, and an arm of Venezuelan foreign policy at this point. In my opinion.

[Oldexpat]

Jones is only there for show and has no power in the US Govt.
If he doesn’t shut up about this, he will be out. He sold out his reputation for a seat at the table..but he is definitely below the salt.

[screaminsunshine]

Do you think he will like his new assignment in the Antartic?

[ETL]

From the Russian News and Information Agency:
July 27, 2006
"'I am determined to expand relations with Russia,' Chavez, known as an outspoken critic of what he calls the United States' unilateralism, told the Russian leader, adding that his determination stemmed from their shared vision of the global order.":
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060727/51913498.html
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Venezuela Set to Develop Nuclear Power With Russia
September 29, 2008
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Russia will help Venezuela develop nuclear energy — a move likely to raise U.S. concerns over increasingly close cooperation between Caracas and Moscow.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,429441,00.html
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Venezuela's Chavez welcomes Russian warships
Nov 25, 2008
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela – Russian warships arrived off Venezuela's coast Tuesday in a show of strength aimed at the United States as Moscow seeks to expand its influence in Latin America. The deployment is the first of its kind in the Caribbean since the Cold War and was timed to coincide with President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Caracas — the first ever by a Russian president.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22Venezuela%27s+Chavez+welcomes+Russian+warships%22&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2

More Yahoo search results for Russia and Venezuela connections:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu_X30pZJCJEAfCtXNyoA?p=Russia+Venezuela+bombers+tanks+arms&y=Search&fr=404_news
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From National Public Radio (NPR):
August 29, 2006
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been visiting countries such as China, Iran and Russia as part of an effort to build a 'strategic alliance' of interests not beholden to the United States. He considers the United States his arch enemy.":
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5729764

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Russian nuclear bombers in Cuba?
July 23, 2008

The media has been abuzz today at the prospect of Russian nuclear bombers being stationed in Cuba if the US goes ahead with plans for missile defense bases in Eastern Europe.

The story has riled the US enough that a US general has been wheeled out to tell the world’s press that any Russian attempt to build another nuclear base in Cuba would cross US “red line”.

The story broke earlier this week, when Russian newspaper Izvestia quoted an un-named source from within the Russian military. He told the Russian daily:

“While they are deploying the missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, our strategic bombers will already be landing in Cuba.”

The quote hasn’t been independently confirmed, but the Russian Defense Ministry added fuel to the fire when they refused to comment on the story.

The prospect of Russian nuclear forces being stationed in Cuba - which is, after all, only 90 miles from the US coast - would bring back some rather unpleasant memories for the US of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, where the Soviet Union under Nikita Kruschev launched an audacious and foolhardy bid to station nuclear missiles on the Caribbean island.

http://www.siberianlight.net/2008/07/23/russian-nuclear-bombers-cuba/

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Chavez "armed to the teeth" with new Russian tanks
NotiUno.com (Spanish-language article) ^ | July 24, 2009 | News Desk
(English-language translation)

Posted on Monday, July 27, 2009 11:53:03 AM ET by rrstar96

The government of Venezuela will purchase tanks from Russia to double its fleet and strengthen its armed forces. [Venezuelan] President Hugo Chávez made the announcement amid growing tensions with Colombia over its military agreement with the United States, which would allow troops from that country to operate from Colombian bases.

"We are going to bring several new tank battalions in order to double the armored force we presently have... I am not going to pay attention to what the neighbors say, or up north, forget the Yankees," said Chávez in "Hello, Theoretical President", the new version of his Sunday show.

The Venezuelan president explained that the new tanks are part of a "western shield plan" to protect the border with Colombia, from where he believes the United States is planning an offensive. ..."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302021/posts

Original source (in Spanish):
http://www.notiuno.com/2009/07/chavez-se-arma-hasta-las-muelas-con-nuevos-tanques-rusos/

[uncbob]

Maybe Obama is trying to get a foreign policy issue that he can be strong on to stop his slide in the polls

Busting on Chavez will do that

[ETL]

"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'
http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html

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Russia's Medvedev hails "comrade" Obama

Associated Foreign Press (AFP) ^ | April 2, 2009 | Anna Smolchenko

"Russia's Dmitry Medvedev hailed Barack Obama as "my new comrade" Thursday after their first face-to-face talks"

http://www.france24.com/en/20090402-russias-medvedev-hails-comrade-obama

April 1, 2009:
"Obama, Medvedev pledge new era of relations":
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090401/wl_afp/usrussiadiplomacynuclear_20090401152002
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President Obama and Venezuela dictator Hugo
Chavez at the 2009 Summit of the Americas in Trinidad

Obama, Chavez shake hands at Americas Summit:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97KK2T00&show_article=1

[BradtotheBone]

Venezuela to buy Russian arms, tanks: Chavez

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.8c34a75248ddd401e7db0815cb13f5d1.111&show_article=1

[popdonnelly]

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