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Whereas the Report continues that ‘‘[t]he Revolutionary 
Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is Latin America’s 
oldest, largest, most capable, and best-equipped insur-
gency’’; 
Whereas the Report states that the U.S. Department of the 
Treasury has designated a Venezuelan diplomat as a 
Hezbollah supporter and two senior Venezuelan Govern-
ment officials and the former Justice and Interior Min-
ister for materially assisting the narcotics trafficking ac-
tivities of the FARC; 
Whereas, for more than 40 years, the FARC has carried out 
bombings, mortar attacks, kidnappings, extortion, guer-
rilla warfare, and drug trafficking targeting Colombian 
and United States political, military, and economic inter-
ests as well as foreign citizens; 
Whereas in July 2009, the Colombian military conducted a 
raid on a FARC training camp and recovered Swedish- 
made anti-tank rocket launchers sold to Venezuela in the 
1980s; 
Whereas seized documents from a Colombia-led raid against 
the FARC on March 1, 2008, suggest evidence of 
$300,000,000 in payments to the FARC from the Ven-
ezuelan Government, and efforts by the FARC to obtain 
50 kilograms of uranium; 
Whereas in January 2008, Chavez praised the FARC as ‘‘a 
real army’’ and ‘‘an insurgent force with a political 
project’’, and called upon foreign governments to cease 
referring to the FARC as a terrorist organization; 
Whereas in May 2009, the Secretary of State renewed an 
arms embargo against Venezuela for all United States 
commercial arms sales and re-transfers to Venezuela; 
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Whereas the 2008 Country Report noted that Venezuelan 
citizenship, identity, and travel documents remained easy 
to obtain, making the country a potentially attractive 
way-station for terrorists; 
Whereas the Department of Homeland Security is required to 
assess security at foreign airports with direct service to 
the United States to determine compliance with stand-
ards established by the International Civil Aviation Orga-
nization (ICAO); 
Whereas the United States Transportation Security Adminis-
tration says it ‘‘has been unable to assess security meas-
ures at international airports in Venezuela that serve as 
the last point of departure for nonstop flights to the 
United States’’; 
Whereas the activities of supporters and financiers of ter-
rorist organizations in the Western Hemisphere con-
stitute a severe threat to the United States and its allies 
and interests; and 
Whereas many countries in the Western Hemisphere make 
serious prevention and preparedness efforts, including co-
operation with the United States, to address the mutual 
threat that terrorism poses to the region: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the Government of the Bolivarian 
Republic of Venezuela for its state-sponsored sup-
port of international terrorist groups; 
(2) calls on the Secretary of State to designate 
Venezuela as a state sponsor of terrorism; and 
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(3) urges increased and sustained cooperation 
on counter-terrorism initiatives between the Govern-
ment of the United States and allies in the region. 
Æ 
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