Word: farces
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...weekend by the rebels he commanded for 44 years, makes it official: the Che Guevara era, like that of the hemisphere's military dictatorships, is over. And so, for all intents and purposes, is Marulanda's once feared but now jaded guerrilla army, the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC...
...Colombia A Blow to FARC...
...commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) surrendered on May 18--a boon to President Alvaro Uribe. Nelly Avila Morena--who went by the nom de guerre Karina--said FARC, which has been trying to overthrow the government for some 40 years, has been "decimated." The group now includes about 9,000 rebels, compared with an estimated 17,500 in 2002. Two of its most senior officials were killed in March. Morena's surrender is seen as a major blow to the organization's morale...
...then there's the possibility, albeit remote in the eyes of many observers, that Chavez might be right - that the laptops themselves might not be authentic. Interpol chief Richard Noble said he was "absolutely certain" that the computers "came from a FARC terrorist camp." But technically, all that Interpol did in its examination of the computers was to confirm that they had not been messed with post-March 1; it wasn't asked to investigate Chavez's allegations that the computers had been planted by the Colombian military in the first place. "The intelligence is mistaken," Venezuelan Ambassador...
...Another incentive against raising the stakes with Venezuela is the three U.S. defense contractors who have been held hostage by the FARC since 2003. Chavez has, this year, mediated the release of a handful of high-profile Colombian hostages held by the guerrillas, and sources familiar with the case of the U.S. captives acknowledge that the Venezuelan firebrand could play a similar role in their freedom. It's an admittedly slim hope, but one the U.S. probably won't want to jeopardize at this point...