Do computers lie? Or just the intelligence services? These are the questions swirling around the recent charges against Venezuela from Colombian armed forces that invaded Ecuador and took computers from Colombian guerrillas after bombing their base. The Colombians claim the computer files show Venezuela helped the FARC rebels, deemed terrorists by the U.S.
But in an e-mail from Venezuela Information Office, Venezuela points out "INTERPOL's report DOES NOT back up the Colombian government's attacks on Venezuela.
"INTERPOL's stated intention 'was not to evaluate the accuracy or the source of the exhibits' content.' Therefore, the investigation 'did not include the analysis of the content of documents, folders or other material on the eight seized FARC computer exhibits.'"
Venezuela and other left oriented governments in Latin America have faced intervention from the Bush administration. The latest aggression comes at a time when Colombia's president Alvaro Uribe has been tied to far right paramilitaries charged with killing thousands of trade unionists, community activists and others. U.S. corporations like Chiquita and Drummond have also been linked to these armed groups.
These charges against Venezuela also come at a time when the Bush administration is pushing for the Colombia-U.S. Free Trade Deal, a type of trade deal that favors corporations over the people of South, Central America and Caribbean, and the workers and people of North America, and is opposed by many, including the majority of Venezuelan people.
Just too convenient, even for conspiracy skeptics.
Read the Interpol report:
http://www.interpol.int/Public/ICPO/PressReleases/PR2008/pdfPR200817/ipPublicReportNoCoverEN.pdf
Read Venezuela's Fact sheet:
