Chavez uses FARC as a personal hit squad, according to a new book.
A new book by the International Institute for Strategic Studies confirms that the Venezuelan government's ties to the FARC involved not only weapons deals with other parties (including Belarus), support for the FARC's claims of political legitimacy, the use of Venezuelan territory, and offers of $300 million dollars, but that the Venezuelan government may have had the FARC act as hit men against political opponents. The book is titled The FARC Files: Venezuela, Ecuador and the Secret Archive of â??'Raúl Reyes'.
Of course the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC, already issued a press release rejecting the IISS allegations.
The BBC and others are covering the new book as well.