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Americas & Beyond | June 2008
Chavez Tells FARC Armed Struggle is Over The Real Network go to original
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has declared that armed struggle in Latin America is essentially over.
In the latest chapter of his complex mediation between left-wing guerrillas and the right-wing Colombian government, Chavez has asked the FARC guerrillas to lay down their arms and release all hostages "in exchange of nothing" - as a humanitarian gesture.
To clarify the complex relations between FARC, Hugo Chavez, the Colombian government and the Bush administration, The Real News Network Analyst Pepe Escobar spoke to historian Forrest Hylton in New York. |
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