A series of cables from diplomats at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana a few years ago indicates that at the time they found no direct evidence of money laundering in Cuba, but said the island has one of the world s most secretive banking systems. Two of the U.S. diplomatic reports, which were made public by WikiLeaks, were replies to State Department queries sent to all U.S. embassies in 2008 and 2009 on how their host governments were handling measures on fighting money laundering and combating financing of terrorism.

Venezuelan President Hugo Ch vez also betrayed the FARC to prevent the extradition of drug trafficker Walid Makled to the United States, according to new documents leaked by WikiLeaks.

The bizarre saga of WikiLeaks yielded an arrest and yet another unexpected wrinkle on Tuesday: One of the Swedish women who has accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes was revealed to be a supporter of Cuban dissidents.