CARACAS, Wednesday October 28, 2009 | Update
Western Hemisphere
A new body was found on Wednesday by a police commission in the western state of Táchira. According to reports, the man could be part of the group who was abducted on the Venezuela-Colombia border.
Until Tuesday, Venezuelan authorities concluded that five Colombians and one Venezuelan had been killed. The new body was located about 500 meters away from the place where the police discovered the first bodies.
Although the authorities have not confirmed the name, they consider that the body of the young man, about 25 years old, could be José Luis Arenas, who was reported missing. The decomposed body had a bullet in his head and was tied.
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.