Stunning news from Hugo Chavez

The Marxist president of Venezuela has ytold the FARC guerillas in neighboring Colombia to give up their struggle to overthrow the US ally: (via BBC)

In his weekly television and radio programme on Sunday, Mr Chavez urged the Farc's new leader, Alfonso Cano, to "let all these people go".

"The guerrilla war is history," he said. "At this moment in Latin America, an armed guerrilla movement is out of place."

Only a few months ago Chavez was a funder and public defender of the FARC narco-terrorists. What changed?

The first thing that leaps to mind is the capture of a FARC laptop computer by Colombian forces, containing files that incriminated Chavez. (The BBC provides helpful background information toward the end of this article.)

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