Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Signs of nervousness in Venezuela and Ecuador in advance of Interpol announcement

There are signs of nervousness in Venezuela and Ecuador in advance of Interpol Director Ron Noble's announcement, scheduled for Thursday in Bogota, Colombia, on whether his agency believes the electronic files recovered from the laptop computer of the late FARC commander Raul Reyes were tampered with or not. If Interpol anoints the files as legitimate, serious political discomfort will ensue for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Ecuador's Rafael Correa because of their countries' alleged dealings with the FARC, Colombia's largest rebel group, as indicated by laptop files. The FARC is viewed officially by the U.S. and other nations as a terrorist group, and so the files could lead the U.S.

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