Posted on 05/21/2008 10:39:28 AM PDT by StJacques
21/5/2008 Por Martha Colmenares Its contents had already been announced widely, and relating to that StJaques @ Freedom Blog posted a translation of one of my articles for the "Minuto Digital" Basque newspaper. This is how his reflexion begins: The confirmation of the authenticity of the documents taken from the hard drives of former FARC leader Raul Reyes has been made. In a press conference in Bogota on Thursday representatives from the Interpol computer forensics team who examined the four laptops at the request of the Colombian government made a full report to the world that presented their findings that the Colombian government did not insert new files, nor did they tamper with existing files, nor did they modify or alter the content of the hard drives in any way. According to Interpol's Secretary General Ronald Kenneth Noble "the eight proofs [presented by the Colombian government] registered no modifications." Noble went on to say "we did not request to be involved, but when the call came from Colombia we did not doubt that we would accept the task, even though we knew that this could create a lot of criticism." Interpol also made clear that the volume of data to be examined was extensive, that analyzing it required the use of ten Interpol computers and more than four thousand hours of work time, and that there was too much data to do a thorough study of the content. Conclusions: I expect to see a rush on the part of many bloggers who have been waiting for this moment to trumpet the authenticity of Reyes documents and I wish them well. Some of these bloggers, like me for instance, have been studying Chavez for years and we've known the FARC connection was indisputable. There have been some very shameful attempts on the part of Chavez idolators to discredit the information Colombia released to the public, in spite of some very good indications -- external evidence -- that events following in the wake of the seizure of the laptops; such as arrests in Thailand, the search of a FARC safe house in Costa Rica where 0,000 in cash was found, the seizure of 66 pounds of uranium in a home north of Bogota and more, all pointed to the likelihood that this was an intelligence bonanza. But I want to take a step back from the cheering among the good guys right now and raise one very important question I consider timely at this moment. Haven't the Colombians and Venezuelan dissidents been telling us that Chavez was directly behind the FARC, both for reasons of substantial and indisputable evidence along with his own openly declared policies and known personal history? The answer is an obvious "yes," they have been informing the wider world. But their repeated efforts to publicize the truth have been drowned out by the background noise of a concerted campaign to delegitimize them, and the story they tell, for their avowed opposition to leftist politics, as well as for the deliberate intent of a major news media establishment that neglects their view as either uninteresting or at odds with a political agenda they only attempt to disguise. And what did we hear from these sources? Well; let me put up a quick list: # The details of Hugo Chavez's personal biography going back to at least the late 1980's show a consistent involvement with the Latin American Left; including Cuba and the Sao Paulo Forum, where his most important contacts were established and from whom he received significant resources enabling his rise to power. # Chavez has openly endorsed the FARC and they have returned the favor likewise, a relationship that has been well-established since the late 1990's, as has been made clear in the public statements of both. # Chavez's support of the FARC has been a publicly-stated policy of the Venezuelan government from the earliest days of his regime. # Venezuelan government officials under Chavez have openly admitted that they support the FARC as a policy initiative. # Chavez's involvement in recent efforts to free kidnapped hostages of the FARC has only been cynical political theater as his regime has assisted in the kidnapping of its own countrymen. With the authentication of the Reyes documents, it is now time to revisit the information that has come from these sources, whose stories have been vindicated in the content of the archived correspondence of a known terrorist leader. I have been presenting a good deal of evidence over the past three weeks from the Colombian perspective. I now want to return to an important Venezuelan dissident, Martha Colmenares, whose work I have highlighted before. The following is a translation of an article by Martha which was posted on the Spanish news site Minuto Digital on January 29 of this year. That's a full month before the attack on the FARC encampment in Ecuador where Reyes was killed. Read the details and ask yourself why we did not hear more of this before March 1. Translation: Chavez's relationship with his Colombian allies is longstanding, one part of it was kept secret, and another part has come into public view. Before entering the Military Academy, Chavez was a communist agent, supervised by his brother Adan and together they must have begun their contacts with the Colombian guerrillas. On leaving prison pardoned in 1994, he traveled to Colombia to look for political and financial support for his political aspirations in Venezuela, offering compensation in return if he achieved his aspirations for power. Therefore he traveled to Havana in December 1994, where he was received at the airport by Fidel Castro himself. The alliance with Castro gave Chavez a direct passport to communism in Colombia. Already by 1990 Castro had formed the Forum of Sao Paolo (FSP) with all the communists who were left disbanded following the fall of the Berlin Wall. In May 1995, Chavez traveled to Buenos Aires, picking up Argentine revisionist Norberto Ceresole, a denier of the Holocaust, on his way. Both of them continued on to Montevideo, where leftist General Liber Seregni (of the Frente Amplio) received them, and who introduced Chavez and his MVR-200 (Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement - 200) at a meeting of the FSP. The organization was holding its fifth gathering in that city. Once enrolled in the Forum of Sao Paulo, Chavez took on a formal and functional relationship with the Communist Party of Colombia, the FARC and the ELN, who are also members of that organization. In 1996, Chavez traveled to El Salvador to participate in the Sixth Meeting of the FSP. This would serve as a setting to interact with the Colombian delegates, including the FARC guerrilla Raul Reyes, who later publicly expressed his sympathy for Chavez and who classified him as a "patriot." That same year he said that the FARC are "about the same" as Chavez. In January 1999, three weeks after assuming the presidency, Hugo Chavez publicly modified the traditional position of Venezuela regarding the Colombian guerrillas, who ceased to be enemies. Venezuela would be "neutral." On October 2 of the same year, he told the news media that the guerrillas were no longer the common enemy of Colombia and Venezuela. He previously had expressed his readiness for the ELN to carry out its national convention in Venezuela. The terrorist group said that Chavez was a leader to follow. There is a document from the year 2000 which states that Chavez was the candidate of the Colombian guerrillas. This can be confirmed from a review of the clippings in the Venezuelan press at that time. As early as February 2000, the FARC issued a statement supporting President Chavez. Months later, the former director of the Venezuelan security agency DISIP (Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services), Jesus Urdaneta, said that Chavez was impelling the guerrillas against the government of Colombian President Andres Pastrana. Pastrana denounced the fact that the Colombian government ordered him to deliver 300 thousand U.S. dollars to the Colombian guerrillas, adding that President Chavez always had wanted to give them arms. The guerrillas were trying to launch a final offensive towards Bogota and overthrow the Pastrana government. When the FARC linked the political party named Movimiento Bolivariano (Bolivarian Movement) with the "New Colombia," on the 5th of May, 2000, Chavez showed his satisfaction with the creation of the new party and publicly welcomed it. On July 16, 2000, General Victor Cruz Weffer, one of the military leaders closest to Chavez, told the weekly newspaper Quinto Dia that the Colombian oligarchy was more dangerous than the guerrillas. Since then, there have been numerous items of public evidence of the mutual support between Chavez and the Colombian Communists: from the Communist Party, the Democratic Pole, the FARC and the ELN. You can get enough of this evidence by regularly reading the FARC's website. That sequence of events was denounced in Venezuela, by people such as the President of Fuerza Solidaria (Solidarity Force), Alejandro Peña Esclusa. Even then, there were sufficient reasons to judge him for betrayal of the country. In 2001, Hugo Chavez Frias refused to sign the Asuncion Declaration against Terrorism and Narcotics Trafficking in Paraguay to which the participating nations subscribed. The insolent and shameless eulogy to the FARC's war crimes delivered at the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, during the presentation of the report on government management last Friday January 11, on the part of the sinister Chavez, has only ratified his pretensions of ending the stability of the continent's democratic countries, especially Colombia. It is not left to anyone in the world to doubt his claims in the least. Like those of a ruler who indignantly denies the existence of dozens of kidnapped Venezuelans, repudiated by the people of his country for that reason. For his alleged playing of the hero of the show, as we became witnesses to the occasion of the liberation of the Colombians Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez. Capable of bathing his country and his neighbor, Colombia, in blood to impose these heartless ones responsible for crimes against humanity with such force. It was his decree of war to the death. Hence "Socialism, Homeland or Death," his sentence of judgment engraved in stone. But outside the spirit of that decree of War to the Death, which on June 15, 1813 the headquarters of Trujillo, Venezuela left as testimony to the Liberator Simón Bolívar, in response to the crimes committed by the worldly Domingo de Monteverde. Spaniards and Canarians, count on death, even if indifferent, if you do not actively work in favor of the independence of America. Americans, count on life, even if guilty. (see note below) In no way does this correspond to the patriotic sentiment of the Liberator, that of Hugo Chavez who proclaims these murdering insurgents of the FARC "Bolivarians." Chavez only desecrates Bolivar every time he invokes him.
Read the details and ask yourself why we did not hear more of this before the attack on the FARC encampment in Ecuador where Reyes was killed
Chavez desecrates Bolivar every time he invokes him
It is confirmed news that Interpol certified the authenticity and integrity of the files found on the Laptop of the well known terrorist of the FARC known as "Raúl Reyes".
Colombia did not mess with the evidence and Interpol is not going to comment on the full meaning of what the documents present.
Chavez's Relations with the FARC
Author: Martha Colmenares
(Published January 29, 2008)
I've been saying this for a while now. Bolivar admired our revolution, our free market economy, our freedoms. Bolivar's period of subterranean rotation keeps getting smaller.
Thank you for the ping, mate. Indeed, Bolivar would regard Chavez as a two-bit thug and wannabe feudal lord.
and MA Congressman James McGovern’s involvment with FARC would be on the front page of the Boston Herald if they were’nt busy kissing Kennedy’s behind.
Mr. Penn? Ms. Cindy?
Good to see you back in any form,
maybe your bog will open next time I try.
That would, of course, be “blog”.
St Jacques, your work and blog are excellent.
Thank you.
Thanks for the ping, granny. Outstanding blog StJacques. Thanks for your work.
BUMP-TO-THE-TRUTH!
You are welcome, always happy to pass on a good link.
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