I fought in the influence battle in the NM political arena in the late 1970’s and early to mid 1980’s. Saw up close and personal the surrogates of the Sandanistas there. Also met representatives of the opposition in Costa Rica. At that time Costa Rica was the dropping off point.
Although Costa Rica is more stable than the neigbors, it is pretty socialistic. My wife’ best friend while we lived in NM was from Costa Rica. She met her husband when he was in the Peace Corp and working in Costa Rica. She was from a prominent family (locally) near San Jose.
Thanks Texas Fossil. When you wrote NM, did you mean Managua or New Mexico? With Costa Rica, the current President is Laura Chinchilla Miranda. I’m taking a 6 day trip to Costa Rica in September, so will learn more. As it’s about Venezuela, with Nicolas Maduro winning the election, Venezuela will continue supporting FARC with their negotiations & Venezuela will continue allying with Cuba-their main ally.
But Texas Fossil, since Venezuela morally supported FARC guerillas in asking that they be removed from terrorist group after first being neutral, do you think that Venezuela’s Chavez regime armed FARC ? Colombia has as I understand a 65 year war with FARC along with their war against ELN-19-el ejercito de liberacion nacional. While negotiations have been going on in Cuba, Colombia is still fighting with FARC. As said, ex Colombian President Alvaro Uribe opposes negotiations with FARC because he says it benefits Venezuela’s Chavez & now Maduro regime.
My knowledge of FARC, Venezuela & Colombia comes from watching Spain TV on Internet & seeing an interview that ex President Alvaro Uribe did with Jorge Ramos on ABC where again, he said he opposes negotiating with FARC as it benefits Venezuala. If you know more, please give your view of what you think of this. Most Colombians recently said they support negotiations with FARC but are skeptical if anything good will happen. Finally, does Venezuela also supporty ELN-19? I know it’s alot, but hope you can help as I think you know more about this & guessing that you’ve been throughout Iberoamerica.