{"id":680166,"date":"2010-03-02T15:21:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T20:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/spanish-judge-probes-chavez-terror-connection-40234\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T20:21:48","slug":"spanish-judge-probes-chavez-terror-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/680166","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Judge Probes Chavez Terror Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 03.02.10 08:33 AM posted by Ray Walser<\/p>\n

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On March 1,* Spanish prosecuting judge Eloy Velasco issued indictments<\/a> against 12 terrorist members of the ETA, the chief Basque separatist\/terrorist organization, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). *Both ETA and FARC are considered international terrorist organization in Europe and by the U.S.<\/p>\n

The Spanish judge charged the 12 with conspiring to murder Colombia\u0092s President Alvaro Uribe, former president Andr\u00e9s Pastrana, and other senior Colombian officials on Spanish soil.* International arrest warrants were issued for all 12.<\/p>\n

Judge Velasco wrote in the indictment: \u0093There is evidence in this case which shows the Venezuelan government’s cooperation<\/a> in the illegal association between FARC and ETA.\u0094<\/p>\n

The indictment singles out long-time ETA member Arturo Cubillas Font\u00e1n as the primary liaison between the ETA and FARC. Cubillas, a naturalized Venezuelan citizen, is believed to be employed by Hugo Chavez\u0092s government as chief of security for the National Land Institute<\/a>. According to Judge Velasco, Cubillas acted as a regular go-between for the ETA with senior FARC officials and arranged training of ETA and FARC terrorists on Venezuelan soil<\/a> between 2003 and 2008.* Cubillas\u0092 wife \u0096 journalist Goizeder Odriozola \u0096 was appointed in 2006 to be director of Chavez\u0092s presidential office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Evidence in the ETA-FARC case was in part developed from documents found in laptop files<\/a> recovered in March 2008 when the Colombian military took out the FARC\u0092s chief of staff Raul Reyes and others in a guerrilla base camp just inside Ecuador.<\/p>\n

The indictment prompted Spanish Premier Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to demand explanations<\/a> from the Venezuelan government. Chavez dismissed the charges as \u0093unacceptable<\/a>.\u0094* Ironically, it is Chavez who routinely claims to have uncovered plots [unsubstantiated] aimed at assassinating him.<\/p>\n

The Spanish charges further reinforce the case for action by the Obama Administration to place Venezuela on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/02\/…or-connection\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 03.02.10 08:33 AM posted by Ray Walser On March 1,* Spanish prosecuting judge Eloy Velasco issued indictments against 12 terrorist members of the ETA, the chief Basque separatist\/terrorist organization, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). *Both ETA and FARC are considered international terrorist organization in Europe and by the U.S. The Spanish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2748,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QWq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}