Thursday 30 July 2009

Sweden-Venezuela-FARC IV

The Sweden-Venezuela-FARC issue has new details. Here some of them in a nutshell.
Sources El Nacional, El Tiempo

1988

Sweden sells a series of AT4s to Venezuela

1999

Hugo Chávez becomes for the first time president in Venezuela (elected in 1998, came to office on 4.2.1999)

2004

2 Swedish rocket launchers were found in FARC camp in the Yari Jungle (Caqueta Department, C1 in map). Their serial numbers are similar to the ones found in 2008.

2008

May: Message from FARC leader Camilo Tabaco is intercepted. Details about contacts with Venezuelan contacts that would provide weapons appear.

September: Colombian forces discover, among other things, Swedish rocket launchers in a FARC camp in the Meta area (C2 in the map)

10 October: Colombian forces discover over 58000 rounds for Kalashnikovs in the Meta area

2009

4 June: Colombian minister of Foreign Affairs gives to Venezuelan minister Maduro documents in which 2 FARC leaders mention their negotiations with three high Venezuelan officials on similar rocket launchers
24 June: Colombian magazine Semana reports on the rocket launchers.
26 June: the Colombian government asks neighbouring countries not to provide weapons to FARC and some further details come out on the weapons
28 June: Chávez freezes ties with Colombia.
End of July: the government of Hugo Chávez still has no answer for what is going on but saying it is all a media show and Colombia (and I reckon Sweden) is lying.




A silly question of mine: can we track back the Kalashnikov ammunition?

1 comment:

  1. Ich war mal interessiert was die Linken so behaupten...
    Denn man kann sich da je eigenlich nicht raus reden:

    http://www.redglobe.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3253&Itemid=31

    Hans

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