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A Letter from Sabine Kienzl, Political Economist at the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Dear friends,

After the presentation of the Interpol report on May 15, 2008, several articles have been published with serious inconsistencies and misleading conclusions linking Venezuela to the FARC. Hence, some analysts seemed to have ignored key points in the report. Some of these points clearly state that “the accuracy and source of the user files contained in the eight seized FARC computer exhibits are and always have been outside the scope of INTERPOL’s computer forensic examination.” Moreover, the doubtful assertion that the computers were not tampered is taken for granted, even when the report reassures that more than FORTY THOUSAND files were manipulated between the 1st and the 3rd of March 2008. Read More

As the Chavez government is being scrutinized from all sides after Interpol’s report, it is now more important than ever that we stand in solidarity with the people of Venezuela. The Emergency Response Network will help you to stay informed and give you specific and strategic actions to help us defend Venezuela from US imperialism.

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By Eva Golinger

Interpol’s Creativity

Since 2002, the Pentagon has been seeking evidence that intimately relates President Chávez and his government with the FARC. Top secret documents from the Department of Defense (that we have desclassifed under FOIA) evidence that the Pentagon has been unable to find proof of a clandestine, subversive relationship between the Venezuelan government and the FARC. The sources used in some Pentagon documents that attempt to show such a relationship are completely unreliable, since they are mass media outlets from Venezuela and Colombia, such as Globovisión, Caracol, El Universal and El Nacional – all of whom are aligned with the opposition to Chávez. Read More

Greg Palast debunks claims by Bush, Uribe and the US media, dismantling the alleged link between Chavez and FARC guerrillas. 

Read Palast’s article here:
http://www.gregpalast.com/300-million-from-chavez-to-farc-a-fake/

By Marc Becker
marc@yachana.org

Leading academic scholars and grassroots activists gathered at historic Howard University in Washington, DC, from April 18-20 for the national symposium “What’s Up With Venezuela: Participatory Democracy or Democracy as Usual?” The meeting provided an opportunity for 200 solidarity activists from across the United States to study the revolutionary changes sweeping through Venezuela. Read More