$300 Million from Venezuela to Colombian Rebels a Fake by Greg Palast

[Joanne98]

$300 Million from Venezuela to Colombian Rebels a Fake
March 8th 2008, by Greg Palast - OurFuture.org
Do you believe this?

This past weekend, Colombia invaded Ecuador, killed a guerrilla chief in the jungle, opened his laptop – and what did the Colombians find? A message to Hugo Chavez that he’s sent the FARC guerrillas $300 million – which they’re using to obtain uranium to make a dirty bomb!

That’s what George Bush tells us. And he got that from his buddy, the strange right-wing President of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe.

So: After the fact, Colombia justifies its attempt to provoke a border war as a to stop the threat of WMDs! Uh, where have we heard that before?

The US press snorted up this line about Chavez’ $300 million to “terrorists” quicker than the young Bush inhaling Colombia’s powdered export.

What the US press did not do is look at the evidence, the email in the magic laptop. (Presumably, the FARC leader’s last words were, “Listen, my password is ….”)

I read them. While you can read it all in español, here is, in translation, the one and only mention of the alleged $300 million from Chavez is this:

“… With relation to the 300, which from now on we will call “dossier,” efforts are now going forward at the instructions of the boss to the cojo , which I will explain in a separate note. Let’s call the boss Ángel, and the cripple Ernesto.”

Got that? Where is Hugo? Where’s 300 million? And 300 what? Indeed, in context, the note is all about the hostage exchange with the FARC that Chavez was working on at the time (December 23, 2007) at the request of the Colombian government.

Indeed, the entire remainder of the email is all about the mechanism of the hostage exchange. Here’s the next line:
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3254

[formercia]

1. The 'Niger' documents redux

so, when does the US invade Venezuela?


These rubes aren't very creative.

[KaptBunnyPants]

2. Well, you knew it was BS the minute Columbia refused to divulge any supporting evidence.

If they had the goods, they would have shown it. It was empty posturing, meant only to give us a flimsy pretext to aid Columbia in their "war on terrorism" if a Columbia/Ecuador/Venezuela conflict did erupt.