I agree with your sentiments re FARC, Beano.

Chavez may have a specific agenda, though. As far as I am aware, the international law rules (since the Spanish Civil War) on non-intervention in a civil war apply where there is: army a v army b; as opposed to Govt v insurgents.

If I remember correctly, one of the main criteria for insurgents to become a competing army is for them to control a significant degree of territory (as the Fascists did in Spain - and FARC do in Colombia).

Thus, Chavez could reasonably argue that as there is a "civil war" in Colombia, the Colombian Govt should no longer receive any aid to fight FARC et al.

I disagree with this anyway as it was a cowardly sop to Hitler/Mussolini that introduced this convention in the 1st place (and because FARC are drug-dealing marxists terrorists).

Also, I'm a tad rusty on the exact rules of non-intervention.

If you read any of the recent newspaper articles on former FARC members you will see how the organisation has lost it's principles and is really only interested in keeping it's share of the cocaine trade income.
Also sounds familiar!

As a fellow colombian and political refugee i have experienced first hand what FARC has done to my country, to my family, and to my life. I hope we can be heard loud and clear. These cowards lack moral and political direction, and thrive on drug business and extortion. Too many lives have been lost, too many families destroyed, and for what? NO MAS FARC!

Chavez seems to have made the time honoured transition from socialist hero to egomaniac prick in unusually rapid time.
More evidence of the veracity of Orwell's "Animal Farm".
Thank you Isabel for "telling it like it is." Hopefully, our local liberators/freedom fighters/defenders can be curtailed before they make our own situation any worse.

While I despise FARC, and Marxism in general, President Chavez is trying at least for peace in the region. Those people freed by FARC in recent weeks were done so because of negotiations by President Chavez. I do think that the Columbian government need to realise that they are not going to defeat FARC by force of arms and by doing many things, for example, fair conditions for the poor, they will not only cut of FARC's propaganda but also its recruitment.

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