$300 Million from Venezuela to Colombian Rebels a Fake by Greg Palast

[Joanne98]

March 8th 2008, by Greg Palast - OurFuture.org
Do you believe this?

This past weekend, Colombia invaded Ecuador, killed a guerrilla chief in the jungle, opened his laptop – and what did the Colombians find? A message to Hugo Chavez that he’s sent the FARC guerrillas $300 million – which they’re using to obtain uranium to make a dirty bomb!

That’s what George Bush tells us. And he got that from his buddy, the strange right-wing President of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe.

So: After the fact, Colombia justifies its attempt to provoke a border war as a to stop the threat of WMDs! Uh, where have we heard that before?

The US press snorted up this line about Chavez’ $300 million to “terrorists” quicker than the young Bush inhaling Colombia’s powdered export.

What the US press did not do is look at the evidence, the email in the magic laptop. (Presumably, the FARC leader’s last words were, “Listen, my password is ….”)

I read them. While you can read it all in español, here is, in translation, the one and only mention of the alleged $300 million from Chavez is this:

“… With relation to the 300, which from now on we will call “dossier,” efforts are now going forward at the instructions of the boss to the cojo , which I will explain in a separate note. Let’s call the boss Ángel, and the cripple Ernesto.”

Got that? Where is Hugo? Where’s 300 million? And 300 what? Indeed, in context, the note is all about the hostage exchange with the FARC that Chavez was working on at the time (December 23, 2007) at the request of the Colombian government.

Indeed, the entire remainder of the email is all about the mechanism of the hostage exchange. Here’s the next line:

“To receive the three freed ones, Chavez proposes three options: Plan A. Do it to via of a ‘humanitarian caravan’; one that will involve Venezuela, France, the Vatican, Switzerland, European Union, democrats , Argentina, Red Cross, etc.”

As to the 300, I must note that the FARC’s previous prisoner exchange involved 300 prisoners. Is that what the ‘300’ refers to? ¿Quien sabe? Unlike Uribe, Bush and the US press, I won’t guess or make up a phastasmogoric story about Chavez spending money he doesn’t even have.

To bolster their case, the Colombians claim, with no evidence whatsoever, that the mysterious “Angel” is the code name for Chavez. But in the memo, Chavez goes by the code name … Chavez.

Well, so what? This is what. Continued>>>
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3254

[seemslikeadream]

1. and this was just a "little" mistake

[Joanne98]

2. Bush is using this fake computer file to attack Chavez today!

That's why I'm re-posting it.

[SteveM]

3. Worked for Bush before, will work for him again ...with uranium!...

A good way to analyze mainstream media is to realize that there are some topics which it will just not -- must not -- cover well:

(1) U.S. foreign policy, esp. when the president of U.S. or group of congressman goes after another
Latin American country; i.e., you will hear very little to contradict any interventionist policy.

(2) War on Drugs; afterall, this is a core policy issue which goes to the heart of U.S. foreign policy,
especially when it relates to

(3) War on Guns. Obviously we know by now that MSM is very much prohibitionist with regards Second
Amendment rights domestically, but internationally the drug flow (and U.S. ability to intersect and use
its resources) allows drugs-for-arms transactions which are off the book.

MSM is quite afraid of and cooperative with the feds, especially when the far right is in power.