In February 2007, Daniel Ortega asked President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez to pass a message to the FARC that he would "send some old slingshots (code for rifles to the guerrillas) that we have stored here, and that I know that still work," (La Prensa, May 2008).
It is stretch, though conceivable, that Ortega alluded to the SAM-7 surface-to-air missiles. The Soviet Union supplied the missiles at a time when Ortega's former leftist Sandinista government was an ally in Cold War-era struggles against the United States during the eighties. It is reported that Nicaraguan still has 400 undestroyed missiles (WP, Feb. 2007). However, it is well known that many more undocumented and unaccounted arm caches exist in Nicaragua.
Colombian authorities and the Interpol are beginning to piece the puzzle based on documents in the computer found in a raid of a FARC camp last month. The computer belonged to "Raul Reyes," second in command of the Colombian guerrillas who was killed by the Colombian armed forces last March in Ecuador.
According to the documents found, in 2003 the FARC created an international campaign composed of clandestine cells and supported by movements of the Latin American radical left. Named the Continental Bolivarian Coordinator (CCB), this network has offices in 17 countries, including Germany and Switzerland. The ultimate goal of the CCB is to create a great revolutionary army with the support of masses to overthrow the capitalist system and install socialism, according to a report published in the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
It is stretch, though conceivable, that Ortega alluded to the SAM-7 surface-to-air missiles. The Soviet Union supplied the missiles at a time when Ortega's former leftist Sandinista government was an ally in Cold War-era struggles against the United States during the eighties. It is reported that Nicaraguan still has 400 undestroyed missiles (WP, Feb. 2007). However, it is well known that many more undocumented and unaccounted arm caches exist in Nicaragua.
Colombian authorities and the Interpol are beginning to piece the puzzle based on documents in the computer found in a raid of a FARC camp last month. The computer belonged to "Raul Reyes," second in command of the Colombian guerrillas who was killed by the Colombian armed forces last March in Ecuador.
According to the documents found, in 2003 the FARC created an international campaign composed of clandestine cells and supported by movements of the Latin American radical left. Named the Continental Bolivarian Coordinator (CCB), this network has offices in 17 countries, including Germany and Switzerland. The ultimate goal of the CCB is to create a great revolutionary army with the support of masses to overthrow the capitalist system and install socialism, according to a report published in the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
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