Columbia’s National Police Chief releases captured FARC documents to the media.

The Columbian raid that killed a top FARC commander continues to get more and more interesting as some very interesting intelligence information is being released about the activities of the FARC terrorist group:

– Connections with Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa
– Records of $300 million offerings from Hugo Chavez
– Thank you notes from Hugo Chavez dating back to 1992
– Uranium purchasing records
– Directions on how to make a Dirty Bomb

It is pretty clear now why Hugo Chavez is rattling his sabers against Columbia because he has to obscure his links to FARC now by making ridiculous claims like Columbia is a bunch of “war criminals” and threatening to cut all trade with Columbia.

Hugo Chavez & Rafael Correa

Even more interesting is that France has been linked to secret negotiations with the now deceased FARC leader:

A rebel commander killed by Colombian forces was France’s contact in negotiations aimed at winning the release of hostage Ingrid Betancourt, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Monday.”It is bad news that the man we were talking to, with whom we had contacts, has been killed,” Kouchner told France Inter radio. “Do you see how ugly the world is?”

Colombia’s military said on Saturday its troops had killed Raul Reyes, considered by analysts to be number two in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), dealing a severe blow to Latin America’s oldest guerrilla insurgency.The killing came days after a former FARC hostage said Betancourt had been mistreated and kept in chains, had a serious liver problem and was mentally exhausted.Betancourt is a former Colombian presidential candidate who also holds French nationality. She has been held hostage by the FARC in the Colombian jungle for six years and her plight has become a major political issue in France. [Reuters]

Probably the most surprising information to come out of the raid is how according to captured documents, how the FARC are hoping for a Barack Obama presidency:

“6. Los gringos pedirán cita con el ministro para solicitarle nos comunicara su interés en conversar estos temas. Dicen que el nuevo presidente de su país será Obama y que ellos están interesados en sus compatriotas. Obama no apoyara Plan Colombia ni firma de TLC. Aquí respondimos que nos interesan las relaciones con todos los gobiernos en igualdad de condiciones y que en el caso de Estados Unidos se requiere in pronunciamiento público expresando su interés en conversar con las Farc dada su eterna guerra con nosotros.

Es todo, Abrazos, Raúl.”

(translated)
6. The gringos will ask for an appointment with the minister to solicit him to communicate to us his interest in discussing these topics. They say that the new president of their country will be Obama and that they are interested in your compatriots. Obama will not support “Plan Colombia” nor will he sign the TLC (Colombian Free Trade agreement). Here we responded that we are interested in relations with all governments in equality of conditions and that in the case of the US it is required a public pronouncement expressing their interest in talking with the FARC given their eternal war against us.

This is what happens when you publicly proclaim you are willing to sit down with America’s enemies and talk to them. The thing I am wondering though is who are the “gringos” talking to the FARC? Also it will be interesting to see if the Clinton campaign would be willing to pick this up to attack Obama with as the choice of the FARC terrorist group?

ABC News has a great report on the raid and the captured documents. ABC believes the documents are most likely authenic and amazingly they even mention Barack Obama’s inclusion in the documents which I have seen no other mainstream media outlet mention yet. This is developing into quite a story, but sadly the media and few people in America seem to really care about issues in Latin America and very little about this story is being aired in the media. However, Columbia is really showing that the years of heavy US foreign aid to the country is really starting pay dividends.

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