TruemorsIs Chavez and his hero status as hostage negotiator / humanitarian a cover for what he is doing to Colombia? Are there those who think he is not arming Communist terrorist Jungle dwellers? Are the people of Venezuela ready to finance the Castro/Chavez revolution plans for Latin America?
BOGOTA --
Venezuelan-made ammunition is regularly reaching Colombia's FARC and ELN guerrillas, Colombian military intelligence officers have told El Nuevo Herald.
One of the officers said the evidence available did not indicate whether the ammunition reaching the rebels is ``a consequence of the growing corruption that exists in the Venezuelan military and police forces, or the result of a policy by President Hugo Chávez.''
The officers said their evidence came from inspections of ammunition seized from guerrillas in northeastern Colombia, on the border with Venezuela, and the testimony of deserters from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and National Liberation Army, or ELN.
The FARC's use of Venezuelan-made ammunition was reported by more than 10 of the some 95 guerrilla members who defected so far this year in southern Colombia and the Andean state of Huila, the officers added.
Both guerrilla groups have a large number of AK-47 assault rifles that use 7.62x39 ammunition, a heavier caliber than most modern assault rifles. The only factory that makes that caliber in South America is the Venezuelan government's Compañía Anónima Venezolana de Industrias Militares, opened in 2005.
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