CARACAS, Monday September 28, 2009 | Update
Politics
The Commission on International Solidarity of the Venezuelan student movement arrived Monday in Madrid, its first destination, in what will be a tour for several countries. The group will try to seek support from Venezuelan students in other countries to show their solidarity with the students that went on hunger strike outside the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Caracas to support political prisoners.
In Madrid, Spain, the students have lobbied with various European institutions to enhance efforts for international condemnation of the Venezuelan government, said a press release.
Ricardo Sánchez, the President of the Federation of Students' Council (FCU) at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) and president of the Commission on International Solidarity for the Release of Imprisoned Students for the national student movement, is essential that international institutions have another look at what is happening in Venezuela.
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.