LatinNews Daily - 19 May 2011

Colombia: The US administration is examining the contents of a laptop computer allegedly found at the site in Ecuador where Raúl Reyes, the second-in-command of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc), was killed. The US is playing up the evidence, found on the computer, that Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez had pledged to donate oil worth US$300m to the Farc this year. Interpol announced on 10 March that it had dispatched a five-man team to Bogotá to investigate the computer and its alleged contents.