CARACAS, Wednesday June 17, 2009 | Update
Economy
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa will visit Venezuela and the United States at the end of June, an official source confirmed on Wednesday.
The source told Efe that in Venezuela, Correa is to take part in the ceremony for his country inclusion into the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of our America (ALBA), slated for June 24, reported Efe.
On June 25, the source added, the Ecuadorian head of State will attend the United Nations conference on the world financial crisis that will take place in New York.
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.