CARACAS, Monday May 17, 2010 | Update
Politics
Álvaro Uribe, the President of Colombia, said on Monday that "there have always been many pieces of evidence" of a possible cooperation between the Basque terrorist organization ETA and the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
In an interview with state-run TV station Televisión Española (TVE), Colombian President Álvaro Uribe said that eight or 10 years ago, when he was a presidential candidate, there were two attacks in which "the Colombian police told me that the explosives used by FARC were similar to those used by ETA or the Irish Republican Army (IRA)," Efe reported.
"That is to say, there have been many pieces of evidence" of a possible cooperation between ETA and the FARC. "That's all I can say," the Colombian president stated.
Regarding the investigations carried out by the Spanish justice into the alleged cooperation of the Venezuelan government with an alleged alliance between ETA and FARC to launch attacks in Spain against Colombian political leaders, including Uribe, the Colombian ruler said that cooperation among countries against terrorism was very important.
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.