The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated two senior Venezuelan government officials, Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios and Henry de Jesus Rangel Silva, and one former official, Ramon Rodriguez Chacin, for materially assisting the narcotics trafficking activities of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a narco-terrorist organization.

“Today’s designation [...]

Various armed groups from Caracas’ ‘23de Enero’ parish declared themselves to be on revolutionary strike this Thursday, in order to protest against the repression shown towards them by officials from the DISIP (Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services), following the detonation of an explosive device in the entrance of the Fedecamaras (Venezuelan Federation of [...]

The biggest threat in the region is not Colombia but Venezuela. Mr Chávez has recently veered towards outright support for the FARC. Colombia alleges that the captured laptops show that he gave the guerrillas $300m (and also that the FARC is seeking uranium for a ‘dirty bomb).
Mr Chávez’s mismanagement of Venezuela’s oil boom has made [...]

Around a hundred people turned up at the Spanish embassy in Caracas today with banners criticizing Spanish authorities and presented a document supporting Batasuna and expressing solidarity “with the towns that fight”. The demonstrators launched firecrackers and burnt two dolls with the effigy of the King of Spain and the ex-president of the Government Jose [...]