[wardaddy]

Just curious but if this dope warlord who operated btw on the other side of the country in the Choco far away from Venezuela and Chavez was a pal of Hugo?

He was a rightist paramilitary doper who was at odds with Chavez’s buddies in the FARC and ELN.

It seems incongruent that he was allied with Chavez except they both obviously were at odds with Uribe.

I personally knew one of the original paras of this stripe a long time ago, Victor Caranza....he was-is no pal of Chavez’s.

I couldn’t find anything on the net about Don Mario an Chavez.

[Southack]

"Once a paramilitary in a branch of the now-demobilised United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC), Daniel Rendon had refused to surrender as part of a peace deal."

"Instead he used paramilitary networks to build up a personal army of up to 1,000 heavily-armed fighters, also striking a deal with left-wing Farc rebels, the BBC's Jeremy McDermott reports from the capital, Bogota."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8000528.stm

In other words, he's allied with LEFT-WING FARC terrorists as the news media breathlessly lies about him being a "far Right" wing para-military.