At this week's Bogota press conference, the INTERPOL report on the validity of computer files seized by the Armed Forces of Colombia, during a raid upon a FARC base-camp inside Ecuador, will be released. Since illegal payments reportedly made by Venezuela to the FARC and several Latin American presidential candidates, and contained in those files, will probably be validated, you will want to re-examine country risk in those jurisdictions named to date. Additionally, the Government of Colombia has been releasing files to the press, and a blanket statement that the documents are authentic will then serve to vet all subsequent documents declassified and released. Whether improper payments by Venezuela to other countries will be revealed is unknown, but you can be certain that there will be additional Latin American politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) named as recipients of illegal campaign funds, bribes, or other money designed to corrupt them, in those files.

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