Leading academics from U.S. research centers and various universities, including Harvard, have claimed that the government of Colombia has distorted information captured from FARC guerrillas to smear Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
A statement released by the group stated "In the first round of media coverage of the event, significant problems of inconsistency surfaced precisely as a result of the gap between Colombia's exaggerations and what the documents actually say."
Interpol is poised to make an announcement on the contents of the documents but the academics claim that "independent analysis" shows that the government of Alvaro Uribe "has substantially exaggerated their contents, perhaps for political purposes."