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Email Print Factbox Key facts about Colombia's FARC guerrillas Tue, May 10 2011 Analysis & Opinion Reliving the Cold War’s tensest moment U.S. chases elusive currency-detection technology Related Topics World » Venezuela » Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrives at a rally to commemorate Labour Day in Caracas May 1, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Jorge Silva By Mica Rosenberg BOGOTA | Tue May 10, 2011 8:27pm EDT BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian leftist guerrillas may have tried to assassinate rivals of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and trained his supporters in urban warfare, an analysis of thousands of seized rebel documents showed on Tuesday. The study of the files seized during a 2008 raid on a rebel camp inside Ecuador also showed that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) contributed some $400,000 to Ecuador's President Rafael Correa's election campaign. Venezuela's embassy in London questioned the authenticity of the documents published by the British-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), calling them a "dodgy dossier" that could be exploited to sabotage warming ties between the ideologically-opposed neighbors. Correa dismissed the IISS findings as "absolutely false." Accusations have been swirling since Colombian authorities captured computer hard drives belonging to a FARC leader, Raul Reyes, after he and other rebels were killed in the air raid three years ago. "A lot of this material has been traveling through the public domain one way or another over the last years but the utility of this dossier is it provides authentic confirmation from the FARC perspective," IISS' Nigel Inkster told Reuters. Colombia turned over the complete files to IISS, an independent think tank, for study after they were confirmed genuine by Interpol. The 2008 attack triggered a diplomatic dispute between Alvaro Uribe's conservative government in Colombia and both Ecuador and Venezuela, which escalated when Uribe confronted Chavez with what he said was evidence Venezuela harbored and supported rebels. Ties have improved dramatically since the election of Colombia's new President Juan Manuel Santos last August. Venezuela has always disputed the alleged contents of the files seized in the raid, and on Tuesday its embassy in London said there was "serious doubt on the authenticity and validity of the information." "This could become part of an aggressive propaganda tool against Venezuela to undermine progress in the region, precisely at a time when relations between Venezuela and Colombia have reached a level of stable cooperation and friendly dialogue," the embassy said in a statement. COMPLEX TIES According to the archives, the FARC responded to requests from Venezuela's intelligence services to provide urban warfare training to pro-Chavez groups when the socialist leader was feeling vulnerable following a brief 2002 coup. "The archive offers tantalizing but ultimately unproven suggestions that FARC may have undertaken assassinations of Chavez's political opponents," Inkster said in a presentation. The documents also show Ecuador's Correa receiving campaign cash from the leftist rebels, although this did not necessarily translate into government favors after he was elected. Correa adamantly denied receiving money from the guerrillas. "I have never in my life met anyone from the FARC, and would never have accepted even 20 cents from an organization like that," Correa told reporters on Tuesday. Colombia's government said it would not comment on the new study. "(Relations with Venezuela) are very good and the position of the Santos government is to strengthen them even more," Vice President Angelino Garzon told Colombian radio. The files reveal a complex relationship between Chavez and the FARC, with the charismatic Venezuelan leader sometimes making promises to the group and then not following through. According to the documents, Chavez also met in person several times with leading FARC members. The FARC is at its weakest in decades following the deaths of top commanders and desertions prompted by a government crackdown aided by billions of dollars in U.S. support. But the rebels remain powerful in some areas of Colombia, helped by their involvement in the lucrative drug trade, kidnapping for ransom and alliances with other armed groups. References to the group's links with local and international drug traffickers is peppered through the archive, Inkster said. (Additional reporting by Alexandra Valencia in Quito; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Laura MacInnis) World Venezuela Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (1) go2goal wrote: This smells like a CIA and State Department fabrication leading up to an assassination….. The US has a historical pattern on dealing with South and Central American leaders who represent their PEOPLE and at the consequence to so called US (Big Corporate) Interests. We can’t deny our history in Panama, El Salvador, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, and elsewhere. The US government and the CIA (the jackels) and the financial hit man can’t be trusted….don’t send in the military. Every US Citizen should read, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” and reread our history in Panama under Carter (did the right thing) and then followed by Reagan (assassinating one Panamanian President followed by the trumped up charges and imprisonment of Noriega). It’s time our government end its imperialist ways – PERIOD! 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