Former Rear Admiral Carlos Molina Tamayo, who used to be a National Security Adviser during Hugo Chávez's administration, witnessed some of the first attempts of the Venezuelan government to illegally supply weapons to members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), according to an interview published on Monday by The New Herald.

Molina, in exile in Europe after taking part in the failed coup d'état in 2002, said that retired Navy Captain Ramón Rodríguez Chacín, an aide of President Chávez, asked him to hand over rifles to the guerrilla rebels when Molina Tamayo was in charge of the Armed Forces arsenal, Efe reported.