CARACAS, Monday August 25, 2008 | Update
Four South Americans -one Venezuelan and three Colombians,
fled Guinea-Bissau, where they had recently let out on probation
after their arrest by mid July for alleged traffic of 500
kilograms of cocaine, reported on Monday the Attorney General
Office.
"The Venezuelan pilot and the three Colombians managed to
leave the country, surely with somebody else as accomplice,"
said public prosecutor Luis Manuel Cabral, who did not specify
the day and time or the circumstances of the rush out, AFP
reported.
The aircraft coming from Venezuela was seized on July 12
in Bissau after landing without clearance, loaded with 515
kilograms of cocaine. The cargo vanished afterwards.
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.