CARACAS, Friday November 25, 2005 | Update
Venezuelan airline Conviasa and Argentinean carrier Aeroregional
entered into an agreement to establish Caracas-Buenos Aires
route, and some other destinies in Latin America, named after
Che Guevara, with prices below 20 percent of market average
tariffs.
An additional, salient issue in the letter of intent is transportation
of equipment and passengers from the South to Caracas as part
of Miracle mission, a Venezuelan government health care initiative,
according to a press release from the Tourism Ministry.
Previously, Conviasa entered into a similar agreement with
Uruguayan airline Pluna. "We are working on integration of
Southern airlines. We have held talks with Pluna and now with
Aeroregional, i.e., we are paving the way for future integration
with a view to consolidating a large Southern airline to be
called Aerosur," Tourism Minister Wilmar Castro Soteldo commented.
10:07 AM. DIPLOMACY. Admired by the Colombian guerrilla after his coup attempt in 1992, the then lieutenant colonel Hugo Chávez Frías received financial support by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) for his projects after his capture that year. This mostly explains the relationship and "debt" between the parties, as revealed by a paper of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) of the United Kingdom.