Hugo Chavez is funding a terrorist group, or so says the evidence, per CNN. Now we know why he’s so upset. It’s the feigned outrage of a war-mongering leader possibly conducting violent economic sabotage against the strongest U.S. ally in Latin America. Chavez has not answered the charges.

Even more disturbing, the Colombian government reports that the same evidence — recovered on computers — suggests the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (known by their Spanish acronym, FARC), a faction of Marxist guerrillas, purchased 50 kilograms of uranium this month.

The evidence was recovered in a controversial raid by Colombian police and military against FARC, which the U.S. government and the EU classify as a terrorist organization. The raid involved a still-murky Colombian incursion into Ecuador, which has heightened tensions in the region, prompting both Ecuador and Venezuela to send troops to their Colombian borders.