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Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela still has ties with the FARC
2010-04-29
Presidente Chavez isn't likely to throw away a weapon that still works.
The Venezuelan government still has ties with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a guerrilla movement, the chief of the US military's Southern Command, General Douglas Fraser, said on Wednesday.

"There is a relationship, a link, which has been documented between the government of Venezuela and the FARC. (...) As far as I know, this (link) continues," Fraser said at a news conference.

The general added that the ties would include "financial support (and) enabling (FARC) capabilities from a logistical point of view."

However, Fraser said that he had no information about the depolyment of FARC elements in Venezuela, AFP reported.
Posted by:Steve White

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