Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is denouncing as “ridiculous” an Interpol report on documents that Colombia says were retrieved from the computers of slain rebels.

Chavez says a “show of clowns” has surrounded the announcement by the international police agency that it found no evidence of tampering with the computers.

Colombia maintains the documents suggest close links between the rebels and the Venezuelan government.

Chavez responded to a question on the matter at a news conference on Thursday denouncing what he called disinformation by a “media dictatorship.”