More on the Bolivarian Revolution's Terrorist Links
By Douglas Farah
There are several new factors that point to how the Bolivarian Revolution is working to undermine Latin America's fragile institutions. The first is the stunning video of senior FARC commander Jorge Briseño, AKA Mono Jojoy, acknowleging that the guerrilla group gave money to the campaign of Ecuador's Rafael Correa.
The Correa government's high-level complicity in aiding and abetting the FARC were further clarified in this special program by Colombia's RCN radio in Colombia (in Spanish), which details, from the Reyes documents, the multiple high level meetings the FARC held with the Ecuadoran government. From these previously unpublished documents, it is clear the amount of money the FARC gave the Correa campaign is at least $300,00.
The Briceño video surfaced in two different raids on the FARC operatives and shows Mono Jojoy reading a statement to his troops from long-time FARC leader Manuel Marulanda, who had just died. Marulanda's statement confirms the authenticity of the documents found by Colombian officials in the camp of Raul Reyes, the FARC's deputy commander, when Reyes was killed on March 1, 2008 in Ecuador.
Reyes had been living in a hard camp in Ecuador for several months and felt safe enough to keep 600 gigabytes of FARC records with him, a sign that his friendship with Correa likely paid off.
Marulanda laments that Colombia seized a trove of electronic documents that badly compromised the rebels and their foreign friends - namely, Correa and President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
"The secrets of the FARC have been lost completely," Briceno reads. My full blog, now de-bugged and up and running, is here.
