Last evening I did some digging around Chavez and Maduro. Found some fascinating data.
In re "And Chavez only asked her where she was from and when she told him, he moved on to the next question without answering her"... see here. It appears that Chavez is behind some privacy invasive software in his "coup" bids to power; listing names, how people voted, where they live, etc.:
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This window has lots of information to discriminate, harass, classify and label people near wher you live. You have the ID number, age, whether the person signed petitions against the opposition, against Chavez, whether the person is rated as "opposition", abstainer and in columns not shown, whether the person signed or not against Chavez and if his or her signature were rejected or not. Then in the buttons below, you can print, search, filter according to categories or simply click on the button labeled "patriots". Press that and you only see the true "Aryans" loyal to the process, those that signed against the opposition. These are your revolutionary, fascist buddies, ready to die or whatever for the revolution. In fact, if they are not on your side but they participate in any of the misiones, you can threaten them with removal of their meager perks, if they don't want to follow orders. Cute, immoral and perverse, no?--end snip
Second, there's a freep posted article from 2003 which details AQ/Hamas/Hezbollah connections to Venezuela.
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Venezuela's Margarita Island, a tourist destination with a large Arab population, has been identified as a source of funding and site of money laundering for the Hezbollah and Hamas militant groups.
Investigators say Rahaman has ties to the region where the borders of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil meet. Local Arab traders there are accused of sending millions back to Hamas and Hezbollah. U.S., Argentine and Israeli authorities believe the area was the launching site for bombing attacks in Buenos Aires, Argentina, against the Israeli Embassy in 1992 and a Jewish community center in 1994 that left 86 dead.
Brazilian federal police also said recently that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged al-Qaida chief of operations and Sept. 11 mastermind who was arrested earlier this month in Pakistan, visited the triple-border region at least twice in the 1990s.
And in 1999, police captured an Egyptian terror suspect affiliated with al-Qaida who established himself at the triple border in order to set up a network there, according to Argentine intelligence documents.
Rahaman had phone contact and other ties with suspected extremists in the triple border region, a U.S. official said in an interview. It is not clear whether Rahaman traveled to the area, the U.S. official said.
Investigators in Europe and Venezuela have not yet determined what Rahaman's target might have been, the U.S. official said.
But if he turns out to have been part of an al-Qaida operation, it would mark the first time the group has tried to launch an attack from Latin America, raising fears of a new front in the U.S. government's war on terror just hours from Miami. U.S. law enforcement officials are monitoring the case, but have not opened an official investigation.
Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert who heads the Washington office for Rand Corporation, noted that al-Qaida's Web site was paid for from a Caracas-based bank account for a brief period last year.
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I have absolutely no doubts in re FARC; an utterly heinous organization. Some years back, doing some digging on another subject? I found "FARC" representations at California colleges. These, if they still remain, no longer show up on search engines.
P.S. My favorite coffee beans are from Columbia.
I've known a number of Columbians who've moved to the US. Each and every last one of them was a staunch conservative. I apologize for digressing into the whole Chavez Maduro thing; but coupled with Evo Morales' presentation I am concerned for Columbia who has been a good ally of the US.