Chavez: FARC is not a 'terrorist body'

Agence France-Presse (excerpt) ^ | January 11, 2007

[HAL9000]

Excerpt -

Hours after welcoming hostages freed by the Colombian rebel group FARC, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged European and Latin American governments Friday to stop branding Colombia's guerrillas terrorists as does the United States.

"I am asking the governments (across Latin America) to take the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and ELN (National Liberation Army) off their lists of global terrorist groups," Chavez told the National Assembly, saying he asked European nations to do the same.

"Because those lists exist for one reason alone -- US pressure," Chavez said in his address on the year 2007.

The leftist Colombian rebel groups "are not any terrorist body, they are real armies that occupy territory in Colombia; they must be recognized, they are insurgent forces that have a political project, a Bolivarian project, which here is respected," Chavez said.

His message was likely to infuriate the elected Colombian government the rebels are bent on bringing down.

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[Westlander]

Chavez’s days are numbered.

[AmericanInTokyo]

He is harboring alAqsa Martyr Brigades and alQaeda, probably Abu Sayyef as well.

His days are numbered as you say.

[tanuki]

FARC is not a terrorist organization. And Chavez is not a bloated idiot.

[bajabaja]

Then FARC needs to release Betancourt and the others (who are civilian hostages), submit itself to the Geneva Conventions, and act like an army. Otherwise, what we have here is a group of narco-communist-murderous . . . . terrorists. (Hugo, does an army “necklace” women with tires rigged with explosives and then detonate it?)

[Westlander]

Enjoy the read on these hollyweirdos.
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/rush_molloy/2007/11/05/2007-11-05_terrorists_like_campbells_visit_with_cha.html