Chavez Roils Latin America as Friend of Cocaine-Peddling FARC

"Last year, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- one of the world's oldest and biggest guerrilla groups -- was a fading insurgency. After a five-year Colombian offensive, the FARC had retreated to the jungles, its ranks thinned by casualties and desertions.

Then Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez publicly befriended the group,"

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=abFtstTCUgNA&refer...

By aztec on Mar 10, 2008, 04:13 in Politics & the war.

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