CARACAS, Monday March 15, 2010 | Update
ETA followers stage a protest in Toulouse, France (Photo: Gaizka Iro / AFP)
Politics
The Spanish judiciary has issued international bench warrants against several members of Basque terrorist group ETA and the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), for alleged assassination plot against high-ranking Colombian government officers.
As reported by court sources, Judge Eloy Velasco, of the Spanish National Court issued last week bench warrants against six presumed ETA members, including Arturo Cubillas Fontan, who held an incumbency at the Venezuelan government, and five FARC members, Efe quoted.
Judge Velasco indicted last March 1, indicted six ETA members and seven FARC members, and gave an indication of their alleged links with the Venezuelan government.
According to the sources, the judge did not order the detention of the two FARC members because one of them is dead, and because the only woman facing trial, Remedios García Albert, is in Spain.
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.