FARC gave campaign funding to Ecuador's Correa?

Bloomberg:

Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe tore into his Ecuadorean counterpart Rafael Correa during a regional summit, accusing the socialist leader of receiving campaign money from Colombian guerrillas.

Uribe, speaking to 15 Latin American presidents during the Rio Group summit in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, said Ecuador isn't an ally in the fight against terrorism and acknowledged he didn't inform Correa in advance of a military operation in Ecuadorean territory last week that killed top rebel leader Raul Reyes.

``I didn't inform him of the operation because we have not received cooperation from his government in the fight against terrorism,'' Uribe told the leaders.

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Uribe, who has been mostly silent since the Organization of American States criticized his military's violation of Ecuador's sovereignty this week, saved no criticism of his neighbors' alleged collaboration with the FARC rebel group.

He said four laptop computers seized during the cross- border raid contained documents pointing to FARC financing of Correa's 2006 presidential campaign. This week, Uribe alleged the same files show Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been funding the FARC. Correa and Chavez have denied allegations they help the group.

``One letter from Marulanda to Raul Reyes transferring $50,000 to help Correa win the second round in his election,'' said Uribe, referring to septuagenarian FARC commander Manuel Marulanda.

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It appears the fallout from the capture of the lap tops will have a cascading effect not only on FARC, but its supporters in Ecuador and Venezuela. It will be interesting to see if there is also evidence of their participation in the drug distribution. could it be that the $300 million in assistance from Chavez was related to the drug income he facilitated?

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