Evidence suggests Chavez gave FARC $300M

[Kathianne]

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(CNN) -- Evidence found in computers seized in a raid over the weekend suggests that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recently gave the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia $300 million, Colombia's national police chief said Monday.

Speaking at a news conference, Gen. Oscar Naranjo also said evidence in the computers suggests FARC had given Chavez 100 million pesos when he was a jailed rebel leader.

FARC has fought to overthrow the Colombian government for 40 years.

Chavez had no immediate response to the allegations involving him.

Naranjo said other evidence in the computers suggests FARC purchased 50 kilograms of uranium this month....

[Gaffer]

Seems things are heating up in the south these days. chavez has moved a number of battalions to the Columbian border this week as well. I think he's fixing to take his first over step and really bring the shit down on his country.

[Dilloduck]

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Awesome--now we can have war refugees flooding up from our southern border !!

[Kathianne]

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Evidence?

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/471745.html


Posted on Thu, Mar. 27, 2008
Colombia says it found uranium linked to FARC
BY FRANCES ROBLES
The seizure of up to 66 pounds of low-grade uranium linked to the FARC rebels adds weight to the evidence found in a captured rebel laptop that the guerrillas were interested in buying and selling the material, according to the Colombian Defense Ministry.

But the 30 kilos of uranium found Wednesday in plastic bags dug up about three feet from a road in southern Bogotá was "impoverished," the ministry said, and in that state could not have been used to make a radioactive bomb.

Authorities were waiting for further analysis to determine how dangerous the material found really is, armed forces commander Freddy Padilla said at a press conference late Wednesday.

It was not clear if Colombian authorities meant that they had found depleted uranium, which is the residue left after the mineral is processed to make nuclear energy or nuclear weapons.

In its natural state, uranium has low radioactive power and it has to be enriched through a sophisticated process to generate nuclear energy or to make nuclear weapons. According to Colombian daily El Tiempo, the country does not possess the technology to enrich uranium.

A U.S. State Department duty officer reached late Wednesday said the department was aware of the reports, but declined to comment....