Frequent contributor to the Weekly Standard Tom Joscelyn sends along this piece, “Report alleges rebels trained in Venezuela,” from Sunday’s Miami Herald:
An Ecuadorean military intelligence report alleges that leftists from Ecuador and seven other Latin American nations received guerrilla training in Venezuela this year from backers of President Hugo Chávez. The report does not link Chávez personally to the training in explosives, weapons and urban guerrilla tactics. But it notes that part of the training took place in two Caracas military bases, one used by the army reserves and another that houses the Defense Ministry…. The report’s key assertion of guerrilla training could not be verified independently by The Herald. But a senior civilian government official here with access to intelligence information verified the existence of the report and described its contents as ”undeniable.” Several military intelligence personnel here also told The Herald that the report was indeed the work of their agency.
