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July 28, 2010

Chavez Finds More Unsavory Mates

Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Globe and Mail

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If anyone thought Colombia’s Alvaro Uribe, who’ll be succeeded as president on Aug. 7 by Juan Manuel Santos, was going quietly into that good night, they were wrong. The Western Hemisphere has been shaken by his government’s exposé of the sanctuary that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez has provided to two Colombian terrorist groups, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN).

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