[T]hugo's Latest Trouble

Well, [T]hugo Chavez is going to have a hard time trying to repudiate this.

The onus is now on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to explain evidence of his apparently intimate ties to Colombia's main guerrilla army.

Interpol on Thursday endorsed the authenticity of computer files seized in a rebel camp, announcing that Colombia did not tamper with documents indicating Chavez sought to finance and arm the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

Venezuelan officials set up contacts with Australian arms dealers and arranged for missile training in the Middle East, according to the documents, which were on computer hard drives seized by Colombia and obtained by the Washington Post.

Yet Chavez responded sarcastically to Interpol's conclusions.

"Do you think we should waste time here on something so ridiculous?" he told reporters in Caracas.

Yes, let Chavez try to laugh it off. He's been in cahoots with FARC terrorists who are trying to undermine the Colombian government and the terrorists now appear to be little more than a proxy for Venezuela's top thug. His fingerprints are all over this, and the linkages between the terrorists and Venezuela's policies are not mere coincidences. They are tightly bound and the computer records are damning.