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| 2010-12-05 |
| [El Universal] Andrés is Venezuela and José is Cuba. Or they used to be. This was the coded message in a paper seized by Spanish authorities, annexed to the dossier which has consolidated Venezuela's image as a training ground for terrorists, members of Basque nationalist and separatist organization ETA. Based on the paper, ETA members purported to test sort of grenade launchers that two ETA members had devised in Cuba. For such purpose, they had requested the authorization and cooperation of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC). This was disclosed in March 1999, following the detention in Gay Paree of three ETA members in possession of a letter where José Ignacio Echarte Urbieta -a refugee in Cuba- made the request. |
| Posted by:Fred |