Here's a surprise: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is sympathetic to the leftist Colombian FARC guerrillas (or terrorists, if you prefer). Chávez made some news by mobilizing some of his army near Colombia recently, due to apparent border incursions by the Colombian army (which was pursuing FARC). Recent discoveries of computerized files seized from FARC indicate that Chávez was the beneficiary of a FARC-donated 100 million pesos when he was an imprisoned [Venezuelan] rebel leader, and even more scary is the evidence that indicates FARC "purchased 50 kilograms of uranium this month."
And how 'bout this regarding those lefty Colombian insurgents: Barack Obama is mentioned among documents recovered from slain FARC leader Raúl Reyes:
Los gringos pedirán cita con el ministro para solicitarle nos comunicara su interés en conversar estos temas. Dicen que el nuevo presidente de su país será Obama y que ellos están interesados en sus compatriotas. Obama no apoyara Plan Colombia ni firma de TLC. Aquí respondimos que nos interesan las relaciones con todos los gobiernos en igualdad de condiciones y que en el caso de Estados Unidos se requiere in pronunciamiento público expresando su interés en conversar con las Farc dada su eterna guerra con nosotros.The gringos will ask for an appointment with the minister to solicit him to communicate to us his interest in discussing these topics. They say that the new president of their country will be Obama and that they are interested in your compatriots. Obama will not support "Plan Colombia" nor will he sign the TLC (Colombian Free Trade agreement). Here we responded that we are interested in relations with all governments in equality of conditions and that in the case of the US it is required a public pronouncement expressing their interest in talking with the FARC given their eternal war against us. (Original Spanish article.)
This isn't necessarily any implication of the Obama (campaign) per se; however, it sure is quite interesting that far-left guerrillas would feel so comfortable with a President Obama. And why not? Obama has reiterated several times that he would meet face-to-face with people like Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Cuba's Raúl Castro with no preconditions whatsoever. (And interestingly, Obama "can understand" why Israel doesn't meet with Hamas -- because it Hamas doesn't recognize Israel's right to exist -- yet Iran doesn't recognize that right either. But, a President Obama would be quite happy to meet with Iran -- without conditions. Nice.)