Ecuador's Leftist Correa Funded by FARC Terror

It is amazing what one can learn from a purloined laptop! Now we are learning that the FARC narco-terrorists movement is funding leftist politicians in South America, such as Ecuador's Correa.

New documents discovered on captured FARC computers suggested that FARC terrorists donated $100,000 to the campaign of Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa.
The Miami Herald and The Real Cuba reported:

New documents a Colombian government official says were retrieved from the computer of slain guerrilla leader Raúl Reyes show FARC's ties in Latin America may be more widespread than previously reported.

Some of the documents, obtained by The Miami Herald, indicate that a leading member of Ecuador's constitutional assembly, charged with reshaping that country's political landscape, may have been a longtime supporter of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

María Augusta Calle -- also the head of Venezuela's Telesur TV network in Ecuador and a supporter of President Hugo Chávez -- let the rebels use her bank account for at least one transaction and helped promote their ideas through another news agency she directs, the Colombian offical said...

...If confirmed, Calle's links would be yet another indication that the rebels' tentacles have spread far across the Colombian border and reached various sectors of Ecuador.
__Gateway

FARC is closely tied to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Correa in Ecuador, and others later to be named. The murderous narco-terrorist coalition stretching across South America is the natural evolutionary result of political processes set into motion decades earlier by Castro and Guevara of Cuba. From Venezuela to Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay, the revolutionaries-cum-nihilists are destroying hopes of millions of South Americans for a better future. They can't help it. It's who they are.

Officials at Oynklent Green [OTC:OYNK] are keeping a close eye on political developments in South and Central America, with regards to a possible new supply of feedstock. Stay tuned.

Chavez Caught in His Own Trap

Hugo Chavez has mobilized his army along the Venezuelan/Colombian border. Faced with discontent at home, and growing international evidence that he is helping to finance the FARC campaign of narco-terrorist violence against neighboring Colombia, Chavez feels forced to act. Unfortunately for Hugo, his powerful friends--Russia and China--are too far away to be of much help, should the US decide to include Chavez' small nation in the international "Axis of Evil."

This week, Colombia launched a strike against a FARC base in Ecuador. Tired of terrorism, Colombia is not going to let FARC thugs hide in Ecuadorian or Venezuelan jungles. Moreover, the Colombian government now says FARC intended to attack Colombia with "dirty" (radioactive) bombs in a desperate blitz to cow the populace. Colombian president Alvaro Uribe said, "We cannot allow terrorists who seek refuge in other countries to spill the blood of our countrymen."

Ecuador and its ally, Venezuela, responded by threatening Colombia with war.

Colombia argues that support for FARC by Ecuador and Venezuela means a state of quasi-war already exists.

FARC definitely established a political relationship with Chavez-led Venezuela. Chavez advocates "socialism" (socialist dictatorship), and FARC had Marxist roots. Last year, the connections became overt when Chavez asked Colombia to agree to let FARC use Venezuela as a "sanctuary zone."

Despite their blatant thuggery, both Chavez and FARC still have "progressive" apologists in Europe and among American leftists. Chavez claims Fidel Castro's "anti-Yankee" legacy, which polishes his "progressive" appeal. Add this to the flammable mix: Ecuador's president is a personal ally of Chavez and something of a protege.

The conventional wisdom says Chavez is bluffing. The Peru-Ecuador Border War of 1995, however, demonstrates that border skirmishing in South America can quickly escalate. Still, South American border wars stir nationalist passions -- in the 1995 conflict, Peru's authoritarian president, Alberto Fujimori, saw his popularity skyrocket.

Chavez faces domestic troubles. He has brutalized his domestic opponents. He has squandered Venezuela's oil windfall -- on populist political schemes and Russian weapons. He suffered a stinging setback in late 2007 in a referendum that would have essentially made him president for life. Oil production is declining. His political supporters have enriched themselves, sparking resentment among poor Venezuelans who once overwhelmingly backed Chavez. ___StrategyPage

Chavez believes that going to war will unite the country behind him. But that strategy does not always work out well for the aggressor. In fact, with the US preparing to gear down operations in Iraq, battle hardened units of the US military will be looking for new "training ground."

Chavez y Correa: Twin Clowns of Different Mothers

Colombia has been forced to endure the terrorist FARC organisation since the 1960s. But Colombia is growing tired of the narco-terrorism of FARC, the political assassinations, the bloody mess FARC has made of the Colombian countryside. So Colombia borrowed a few tricks from the US coalition's "War on Terror" and dropped a bomb on some of FARC's top thugs. True, the thugs were enjoying the hospitality of Correa's Ecuador at the time, but perhaps terrorists should not be allowed safe haven, after all. Who told terrorists they could take "time out" whenever they wanted. Chavez and Correa--the clowns of latin America?

Colombia said on Sunday documents found in a camp in Ecuador where Colombian troops killed a top guerrilla boss showed ties between the FARC rebels and Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, including contacts about political proposals and local military commanders.

FARC rebel commander Raul Reyes was killed inside Ecuador in an army operation that has fuelled tensions between Washington ally Colombia and neighbours Venezuela and Ecuador, where leftist leaders are fiercely opposed to U.S. proposals.

Police Commander Gen. Oscar Naranjo said documents found in computers belonging to Reyes showed contacts between a Correa government minister, Gustavo Larrea, and the FARC commander to discuss political proposals and projects on the frontier.

"The questions raised by these documents need concrete answers," Naranjo said. "What is the state of relations between Ecuador's government and a terrorist group like the FARC."___Source

Other papers found in the camp suggested economic ties between FARC and Chavez' Venezuela. In fact, Chavez was stupid enough to threaten Colombia with war if it ever killed FARC thugs inside of Venezuela! Can you imagine the idiocy of the brainless dictator Chavez? He as much as admitted that he gave safe harbour to the narco-terrorists inside his country!

If Chavez truly wants to shift this farce into the end-game stage, he is going about it exactly the right way. Fidel is gone. Chavez wants to be the new Fidel, but Chavez is stupid. His days are numbered.