Murder Inc

Disclaimer: this rant was partly prompted by a viewing of The Constant Gardener last night, thus apologies in advance.

Further to the "Andean standoff", and regardless of all the damage the assassination of FARC commander Raul Reyes might have had on certain egos (especially Chavez's and Sarkozy's, who thought they could be hailed as heroes by personally receiving Ingrid Betancourt at the border with Colombia, once released by the rebels in a process mediated by the now assassinated Reyes), there is a lot to be asked about the role of drugs and the States (try, if you can, to ignore the bias of the latter source) in the whole affair.

The three laptops the Colombian forces say they removed from the scene of the assassination allegedly contained "a series of explosive secrets - most notably, that the rebels were trying to buy uranium to make so-called dirty bombs and that President Chavez (under the codename of Angel) had channelled $300 million into FARC coffers" (read more here).

Chavez denied this but his sympathies for the FARC are well known.

The USA is happy to accuse both of terrorism. Especially if someone like Chavez is interfering with the money flow and breaking up allegiances.

Anyway, as conspiracies theories go the link of between CIA, the Dow Jones, the FARC and the Colombian drug fields isn't all that bad.

And there's always them to keep me entertained for a while (even the level of detail in the bio. As we've been finding out in this US primaries, you can tell a man by its Church).