I know this doesn’t involve $5,500 whores or anything, but you may be interested to know that the good folks at the Center for International Policy continue to review those Magic Laptop documents, and their latest conclusion is that Chavez’s relationship with the FARC was “distant” until last fall. Then it picked up in October when they began to be in regular contact, which oddly coincides with when “President Uribe authorized Chávez to be a facilitator for hostage-for-prisoner exchange talks with the FARC.”
