Chavez-FARC funding connection obviously false.

[JohnnyCougar]

http://www.gregpalast.com/300-million-from-chavez-to-farc-a-fake/

What the US press did not do is look at the evidence, the email in the magic laptop. (Presumably, the FARC leader’s last words were, “Listen, my password is ….”)

I read them. (You can read them here) While you can read it all in español, here is, in translation, the one and only mention of the alleged $300 million from Chavez:

“… With relation to the 300, which from now on we will call “dossier,” efforts are now going forward at the instructions of the boss to the cojo , which I will explain in a separate note. Let’s call the boss Ángel, and the cripple Ernesto.”

Got that? Where is Hugo? Where’s 300 million? And 300 what? Indeed, in context, the note is all about the hostage exchange with the FARC that Chavez was working on at the time (December 23, 2007) at the request of the Colombian government.

But today, there was speculation in the media of adding Chavez to the blacklist of terror sponsoring nations. Wow, is this country's media full of ****.

[JohnnyCougar]

1. And by the way,

Time to pass that free trade agreement with Colombia quick...before the public finds out we're lying and financing one of the most brutal governments around.

[bemildred]

2. FARC is funded by drug prohibition. nt