From the monthly archives: January 2008
The Associated Press reports that Venezuela leader Hugo Chavez yesterday ”urged Venezuela’s allies to form an “anti-imperialist” military alliance to defend Latin America from possible attacks by the United States … warning that Washington poses a threat to regional security, Chavez called on Nicaragua, Bolivia and communist-led Cuba to “put together a common defense strategy and [...]
The Miami Herald reports this morning that Colombian officials told them that Venezuela continues to supply ammunition to the FARC terrorist group operating out of southern Colombia. ”The [Colombian] officers said their evidence came from inspections of ammunition seized from guerrillas in northeastern Colombia, on the border with Venezuela, and the testimony of deserters from the [...]
During a recent four hour speech before the Venezuelan National Assembly that country’s leader, Hugo Chavez, said that part of his morning routine includes chewing on coca leaves and “recommended” the use of the habit-forming paste that he receives from Bolivia’s leader, Evo Morales. As with most things in the Bolivarian Revolution, laws are relative and [...]
The CI Centre in Virginia reminds folks that notorious CIA defector Philip Agee passed away on 7 January 2008 in Havana, Cuba but that many media stories neglected to mention he was a spy for the Cuban intelligence service, working with the KGB. In the highly recommended book, “The Sword and the Shield:The Mitrokhin Archive [...]
Update and related to a prior post today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today announced the designation of one entity and six individuals acting on behalf of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC, a Colombian narco-terrorist group.
Seeking to legitimize himself after repeated political failures in recent months, Venezuela’s leader Hugo Chavez has launched the next phase in his political kabuki theatre to undermine U.S. interests in the region. Over at the Human Events website Gustavo Coronel, a former Venezuelan Congressman, details Chavez’s latest effort in his war of attrition against Colombian [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote about the imminent release of hostages being held by FARC terrorists in the jungles of Colombia. We now know for certain Venezuela’s leader Hugo Chavez sole purpose had nothing to with playing “peacemaker,” but rather seek to legitimize a terrorist group.
During his State of the Union speech before the Venezuelan [...]
A picture taken somewhere in the Middle East? Guess again. Mexico. The Zapatista National Liberation Army (“EZLN”) recently hosted a women’s ”encounter” or “meeting” at the jungle settlement camp in Chiapas. I posted an image from their website since it is something rarely seen in our media yet such meetings and anti-American and anti-Western efforts are a common occurrence [...]
The National Intelligence Officer (“NIO”) for Latin America from 1990-1994, Dr. Brian Latell, published an op-ed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal that does a good job summarizing key recent events regarding the inevitable change in leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba. His analysis builds upon some of the arguments advanced in his [...]
For several months family members, international observers such as the Red Cross, media, and others anxiously waited for the release of several hostages held by Latin America’s largest terrorist organization, the FARC-People’s Army. As posted on December 28, 2007 on this blog, the leaders of this political stage-show were doing nothing more than a
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