The Nine/Eleven Finding Answers (NEFA) Foundation has published an analysis of the documents Columbia captured in the recent raid on the FARC camp in Ecuador. Among the findings is an extremely close tie between Hugo Chavez and the criminal narco-terror and kidnapping enterprise that FARC represents.
In 1992, Huga Chavez attempted a coup d’etat in Venezuela and was jailed when it was unsuccessful. FARC sent Chavez $150,000 while he was in prison. When Chavez rose to the Presidency in 1998, the friendship had already been well entrenched.
The first thing the captured documents uncover is the business relationship between FARC and Chavez.
The second is the FARC’s extraordinary reach into regional politics, particularly in Ecuador, where the government appears to be willing to change senior military commanders along the border (the area where Reyes was killed) in order to curry favor with the FARC.
The third is the FARC’s apparent willingness to engage in trafficking of material (uranium) that could be used for a low-grade nuclear bomb. The type and grade of uranium in question indicate the FARC had been the victim of a scam or was planning on perpetrating a scam on an unsuspecting third party.
The fourth major theme is the desire to exchange their hostages for captured FARC leaders, using an international stage that will gain the FARC increased legitimacy. This plan, called the Humanitarian Accord, is a strategy explicitly copied from the strategy used by the FMLIN and other insurgent groups in Central America in the 1980s.
That process, initiated on Contadora Island off the coast of Panama, would be substituted for a similar process of negotiations on Isla Margarita, off the coast of Venezuela.

