“In a document dated Feb. 9, Marquez passes along Chavez’s thanks for a $150,000 gift when he was imprisoned from 1992-94 for leading a failed coup—and indicates Chavez’s desire to smear Uribe.”
Take this in context from someone living in a country with some FARC activity. I am not an apologist by any means.
Either a smear or a serious translation issue. Does anyone think chavez waited until 3 weeks ago to offer thanks for a favor 16 years past? One view would be that this is a well-composed smear, if I am supposed to believe that chavez is just now sending thanks, along with the obama item. Would Obama’s shadow machine have feelers with farc this early? Heck, I have no idea. Maybe?
But the chavez thanks could have simply been reiteration of something long since noted and forwarded in some other context, and simply repeated by a megalomaniac. This article doesn’t provide any clues.
Thanks Jet Jaguar for posting this.
(See also key word: “Angel.”)
When the AP puts it out there I assume this is even more damaging to Chavez than this.
Fascinating to see how Latin America (and the rest of the world, actually) pins their hopes on our elections.
Thanks for the post.
"Another message, to Reyes from a lower-ranking commander and dated Feb. 16, includes mention of a possible purchase of 50 kilos—11 pounds—of uranium.
Uribe's government has claimed that means the FARC was seeking to build a dirty bomb. But the message discusses a different motive: selling the uranium at a profit."
Elections have consequences, both here and there...
So Huganut Hugo has depleted his country’s resources, and now he’s looking next door to take his neighbors.... Hmmmmmmm where have we seen this before?
Surely our guys were involved in this one, too, at least in targeting the raid. If so that’s two eminent bad guys in a couple of days. I hope we can keep up the pace. We need to do a lot of it before November.
Domino Theory
In a Dec. 11 message to the secretariat, Marquez writes: "If you are in agreement, I can receive Jim and Tucker to hear the proposal of the gringos."
The same message says an Italian referred to only as Consolo has told Marquez "the European Parliament wants to get involved in the prisoner exchange."
Writing two days before his death, Reyes tells his secretariat comrades that "the gringos," working through Ecuador's government, are interested "in talking to us on various issues."
"They say the new president of their country will be (Barack) Obama," noting that Obama rejects both the Bush administration's free trade agreement with Colombia and the current military aid program.
Reyes said the response he relayed is that the United States would have to publicly express that desire. ]
. . .we can do more than wonder, perhaps; at who is engagin in 'terrorist outreach' here. .
bttt. If this proves authentic: Paging Hollywood leftards who supported Chavez ... oh. Wait. They still support Castro despite ironclad proof of the latter’s jailing of political prisoners. Never mind.