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Terror: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez won plaudits Sunday for urging Colombia's FARC to disarm. Sounds good, but not so fast. He was caught a day earlier aiding FARC and has explaining to do. Judge him by his deeds.Sure, the Venezuelan dictator appeared to have had a change of heart over the weekend by calling on FARC to lay down its arms, release its 700 hostages and come out of the jungle. "Guerrilla wars have become history in Latin America," he said on his Alo Presidente weekly variety show. It caught many by surprise. After all, in the past year, the Venezuelan...

Chavez ends support of Farc rebels By Jeremy McDermott in Medellin Last Updated: 10:29PM BST 09/06/2008 Hugo Chavez said he was ending his support for Colombia's Marxist guerillas, robbing them of their most public and powerful ally. Farc rebels on patrol. Such displays of strength may be a thing of the past after their main ally, Hugo Chavez, withdrew his support The Venezuelan president said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia were "history", and called on them to release their hostages and end a decades-long war with the government. "Enough of so much war, it is time to sit down...