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The Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C. can be contacted at 202-342-2214. The Ambassador, Bernardo Álvarez Herrera, can be contacted by email at despacho@venezuela-us.org Also please send a copy of your protest note calling for freedom for Peña Esclusa to the press department at prensa@venezuela-us.org

El Espectador.com has learned from state intelligence agencies and the DAS which show how they move members of FARC in Venezuela and Cuba, with known and suspected guerrilla camps used to export the Bolivarian project into Colombia.

WHEN Jorge Urosa, the archbishop of Caracas, said recently that Hugo Chávez was installing a “Marxist-communist” regime in Venezuela, the country’s leftist president called him a “troglodyte” and accused him of “instilling fear in the people.” Yet Mr Chávez, an avowed socialist, is openly seeking to introduce what looks like a novel form of communism.

In a statement issued after they landed in Madrid, the freed men said exile was a “continuation of the struggle”.

The triumph of democracy in Honduras marked a turning point. The recent election results in Colombia; the remarkable economic, political, and social progress of Peru, the new conservative governments in Panama and Chile; Felipe Calderón’s handling of a complex political situation in Mexico; and the increasingly blatant authoritarian excesses of Venezuela and its satellites—all of this has created an adverse environment for Chávez and his cohorts.

Colombian forces have killed 12 leftist rebels in an attack on fighters assigned to protect Alfonso Cano, leader of Colombia’s main rebel group, the FARC.

The Oliver Stone documentary on Hugo Chavez is reminiscent of a Nazi or Soviet propaganda film.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refuses to permit any vote on the Colombian pact, which was submitted to Congress two years ago. She doesn’t fear it’ll fail; she fears it’ll pass. Unions control Pelosi and Obama and the Democrats. Unions don’t want free trade agreements. The top 20 recipients of union campaign contributions are Democrats. Its easy to connect the dots and see why we have no free trade agreements with Colombia even though it would help the struggling US economy.

Human Rights Commission spokesman Elizardo Sanchez said he was surprised that the government was releasing so many detainees but he added that the move did “not mean a significant improvement in the terrible situation of human rights that exists in Cuba”. He argued that “forced exile in Spain” was not the same as unconditional freedom.

BOGOTA, Colombia – A 100-foot (33-meter), twin-screw diesel submarine seized at a jungle shipyard in Ecuador marks a quantum, if anticipated, leap in drug-smuggling evasion technology, the top U.S. counter-drug official for the region said Sunday.