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Google’s translation is not half bad, albeit cumbersome to use. Spanish also isn’t too hard to learn.

To the topic at hand, I’m not sure about FARC...they’ve been losing power for quite some time since President Uribe in Colombia started cracking down hard. Still worth looking into I suppose. But, if I were to guess where a lot of the behind the scenes trouble comes from, it isn’t Venezuela or Honduras—but our good old friend Cuba.

A lot of it though doesn’t come down to Glorious Communist Revolution ideology, but just cold hard cash. Drug cartels have much influence in these countries, and organized crime is an international game. Heroin producing syndicates in Southeast Asia use the South American cartels to push their product in the US, and likewise the South American cartels sell cocaine abroad through organized crime overseas. They use FARC and other militant groups to keep the government preoccupied by other problems.

Its bigger than FARC.

Keep in mind that Chavez is FARC and FARC is an extension of Chavez’ power. Chavez was on FARC’s payroll before he was president and now FARC is on Chavez’ payroll, essentially. They are based inside Venezuela and receive large amounts of money and weapons from Chavez.

We know this because it was on the hard-drive captured by the Colombians when they killed FARC’s number 2 inside Ecuador. From the harddrive we also know that Ecuador’s Correa (president) received campaign money from FARC.

We also know that FARC donated to Brazil’s president “Lula”’s campaign. But keep in mind that FARC is now acting as an extension of Chavez’ power now, and not the other way around.

Chavez funded the coup in Ecuador when president Mahuad was overthrown, and the coup leader was eventually elected president. He’s gone, but another Chavist (Correa) is in power now.

Another extension of marxist power in Ecuador, for example, are the indian tribes who have european advisors. They also are receiving Saudi money, I believe. And I believe that because the “charity” that works with them last time I checked had only two other operations, one in Gaza, and one in Bosnia. That smells like Saudi money. Since one of the main things the tribes do is impede oil drilling in the Amazon, it fits. Although, come to think, it could be Iranian money, but I think the Saudis are more active in the oil regions.

The tribes were the shock troops that put Chavist Morales in power in Bolivia.

And the tribes are uprising in Peru. There was recently a big demonstration involving the tribes that killed a couple dozen policemen... its purpose was to stop oil development in the Peruvian amazon. There has already been a military rebellion that failed, and its leaders are on Chavez’ payroll.

There is a connection between Chavez and FARC, I think Chavez uses them for stuff that needs to be deniable. He is also connected to Iran and Khadaffi (and made a big show of donating a million dollars to the Taliban right after 911).

So think Chavez, Castro brothers, Iran, Al Qaeda. His body guard is Cuban, he keeps Cuban observors in every one of his military bases. His officers, when they complete their advanced war college, go to Cuba to meet their opposite numbers. Iran and Saddam both sent security people to work with his security services and Venezuelans say that Al Qaeda gets to operate freely inside Venezuelan territory.

So its a mess.