After report on FARC files: silence

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Question of the day: Why hasn't 34-country Organization of American States chief José Miguel Insulza called for the regional group's investigation into the thousands of Interpol-verified computer files indicating that Venezuela and Ecuador are actively supporting Colombia's FARC guerrillas?

Before I tell you what Insulza told me in a long telephone interview this week, let's recall that key U.S. members of Congress are demanding an OAS investigation into the more than 37,000 computer files seized from slain Colombian FARC rebel leader Raúl Reyes.

Interpol, the world's largest police organization, certified last week that -- contrary to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's and his Ecuadoran colleague Rafael Correa's protestations -- the files were, indeed, from Reyes' computers and were not altered by Colombia.

In a May 13 letter to Insulza, Sen. Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, asked that the OAS' Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism hold hearings ``that could lead to appropriate actions by the OAS.

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