[El Conservador]

Nope, not surprising.

Colombia ping.

[StJacques]

"Colombia ping"??

How long has this been going on? I used to live in Colombia and I pay a fair amount of attention to issues surrounding it. Is this a regular ping list? Because if it is I'd like to be on it.

Thank you for bringing some others on board El Conservador.

[Kenny Bunk]

Drugs as a financing mechanism for Marxist guerillas began in the dim past in SE Asia. It took hold in SA a bit later when cocaine dollars began to flow in the billions. The CIA of the Nixon years invested a lot of time and energy in trying to prove that the popularization and mass marketing of drugs in the 1960's was actually a Soviet Communist plot to undermine America. I'm not so sure they were wrong, but they could never nail it.

FARC probably has more regular flights to Mexico than any other airline! Tijuana has used the business to refurbish downtown, which now houses the discrete offices of many international banks. Hmmm.... wonder why?

At one point the government of el moribundo ... none other than Fidel ... was up to its eyeballs in the traffic. Marxist rhetoric is so simple-minded and so appealing to today's mass-media influenced illiterates, that even narcotraficantes can indulge in it while they sock away billions!

It is completely natural for Chávez to want to horn in on FARC's action. He is really going to need the money to prop up his act.