FARC's Honduras connection
Honduras needs to investigate the parties contributions to see if they have received funds from FARC. They also need to check what communication the group has had with the narco terrorist. Their desire for the return of Zelaya demonstrates they are not very concerned with the rule of law.President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderón are in Guadalajara, Mexico, today for the North American Leaders’ Summit. They will discuss, among other topics, what to do about the explosion in drug-trafficking violence on the continent. But they are also expected to address the political situation in Honduras.
Too bad the Colombian ministry of defense will not also be on hand. It could show them evidence of the connection between the Honduran supporters of deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya and the most important South American supplier of illegal drugs to North America—the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). I know this because recently that evidence landed on my desk.
The FARC is a major player in the cocaine trade, and documents found in computers captured by the Colombian military in a raid last year on a FARC camp in Ecuador show that the rebels have been active in Honduras. A number of those documents came into my possession last week. One is a March 2005 letter to the now-deceased rebel leader Raúl Reyes from another FARC honcho. It provides a list of “political contacts” that have been established around the region and in Spain to provide “support” and help “coordinate the work” of the FARC.
Honduras’s Partido de Unificación Democrática (UD) is on the list. The party has only a small representation in Congress, but it is the only political party that supports the return of Mr. Zelaya. Wherever there are violent demonstrations and roadblocks advocating for Mr. Zelaya, the UD is there.
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You cannot help but wonder why the United States of America is supporting a deposed leader that has such strong ties with Hugo Chavez.. Old men like me remember "guns for drugs"... Oliver North... things like that.
ReplyDeleteLa Gringa, who lives in Honduras, also has an article on the Zelaya-FARC connection. It is refreshing to see the people of Honduras fight for their liberty.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that the corruption of Zelaya and Chavez has significantly contributed to the support of Honduras. Look at how Chavez is trying to silence freedom of speech in Venezuela. I think it all has come together to force the administration to backtrack on Zelaya, in another form of Beer Diplomacy.