Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ordered troops, tanks and fighter aircraft to his country's border with Colombia in a row over a cross-border attack. The Colombian army raided a jungle camp just inside Ecuador - an ally of Venezuela - where it shot dead a leader of the leftist rebel group FARC. Chavez called the rebel leader's death the cowardly assassination of a good revolutionary. Meanwhile, an indignant Ecuador government complained that the Colombian army raid violated its...

Along-standing fear of a linkup between drug traffickers and radical Islamists in Iran-influenced Latin America is closer to being realized, according to a statement by a top U.S. military official and reported by Agence France Presse. Adm. James Stavridis, commander of U.S. Southern Command, made the remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on January 16. “I fear greatly that the connectivity between narco-terrorism and Islamic radical terrorism could be disastrous...

In line with the strange, growing magnetic merging of Islamism and Marxism, a new story is emerging that Hugo Chavez is setting about the conversion of indigenous Venezuelans to Islam: Chavez has invited Iranian Shiite "missionaries" to convert the Guajiros and other indigenous peoples in Amazonia. The entire Wayuu tribe is now Muslim, women wear veils while men go to Kalashnikov shooting practice. Some have themselves photographed wearing suicide vests loaded with bombs, and the...

Macon Mayor Jack Ellis has sent a declaration of “solidarity” to Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist leader of Venezuela who has labeled President Bush “the devil” and pals around the world stage with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Cuban President Fidel Castro… “We commend President Chavez for the things he’s done in this country,” said Ellis, citing Chavez’s efforts to subsidize the cost of heating fuel for low-income residents of the...

A new “popular front” has been forming that should worry every American. White Supremacist organizations have been loitering on the fringes of radical left politics for decades, but open displays of loyalty amongst such groups were considered taboo until now. It is a widely held misconception that organizations like the Aryan Nations or the Ku Klux Klan are right-wing, pro-American groups but they are not. They are dedicated to the destruction of the United States and will ally...

Editor’s Note: On September 2006, Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, in a speech at the United Nations delivered a series of personal attacks on U.S. President George W. Bush. While this is not the first instance of Chavez railing against President Bush, it is an important event, as it could signal that the covert war, originally described by Dr. Duarte on March 11, 2006 [ ] has hit a new phase. In this analysis, originally posted on 9-22-06, at , Dr. Duarte looks at the...

In Venezuela, leftist president Hugo Chavez apparently plans to spend several billion dollars on rearmament. Details have been slipping out over the last year, as an increasing number of sales teams (mostly Russian), travel to Venezuela, and return boasting of splendid results. Chavez has apparently decided to get three dozen Russian helicopter, two Russian subs, and some Russian high tech jet fighters. One reason for getting mostly Russian gear, is because much Western stuff off limits if...

PORLAMAR, MARGARITA ISLAND, Venezuela -- Margariteños cannot figure out how their picturesque island off the coast of Venezuela became a battleground in the war on terrorism. No bomb ever exploded here, no shot fired. But the Bush administration has the island, and other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, under scrutiny as a place where terrorists might live, raise money or move contraband. "The television commentators are distorting information," said Sulenma Reyes,...