The government of Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez has decided to launch an investigation into the activities of ETA activist Arturo Cubillas Fontán after it emerged that he provided weapons training to Xabier Atristain and Juan Carlos Besance, two alleged members of Basque terrorist group ETA, in Venezuela in 2008. Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, informed the decision to Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Miguel Ángel Moratinos in a...

The alleged training of ETA members in Venezuela stirs controversy (Photo: AP) Spain's National Court Judge Eloy Velasco, who is investigating the alleged links between Basque separatist group ETA and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a guerrilla group, thinks that both armed organizations developed and produced weapons in Venezuela, as reported by Spanish newspaper El Mundo. Judge Velasco, who instructed the Spanish police to travel to Colombia to interrogate nine...

Spanish First Deputy Prime Minister María Teresa Fernández de la Vega with Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzón (Photo: EFE) The government of Spain on Wednesday asked the Venezuelan Executive Office for a more intense cooperation in the investigations related to the activities of the Basque separatist group ETA in Venezuela, as well as to take concrete actions regarding former ETA activist Arturo Cubillas, who is a senior official at the Venezuelan Ministry of...

Civil Guard operation against ETA (Photo: Javier Etxezarreta / EFE) Two alleged members of the Basque separatist group ETA admitted that they have received arms training in Venezuela, according to an indictment. Judge Ismael Moreno said that Javier Atristain and Juan Carlos Besance, who were arrested on Wednesday in the Basque Country, said they have received arms training in Venezuela between July and August 2008, AP reported. According to the judge, ETA suspect Arturo Cubillas,...

Unidentified men on foot threw the grenade from the edge of a square where people had gathered on a warm autumn night in the municipality of Guadalupe, which is part of Monterrey, police said. Four children were among the injured. "There was a loud explosion and people started screaming and running," a witness, who declined to give her name, told local radio. The explosion was the fourth from a grenade during the weekend in Monterrey, one of Latin America's premier business cities....

"But, forget it. I won't relent. If something happens to me, remember my infinite love for my country, and to my family I say that I will love them anywhere I end up." A video by CNN affiliate Ecuavisa later showed a defiant Correa standing at an upper floor window, shouting to a crowd of supporters who had gathered outside the hospital, "If they want me, here I am," and then ripping his necktie loose. Later, he told a television station by telephone from the hospital...

Eva Golinger via twitter said that Ecuadorian President Correa was attacked by police with Tear Gas. He has left the hospital and is back in the Presidential palace addressing the nation live on Telasur. Hundreds of police took over military barracks protesting Correa, CNN is falsely reporting thousands, airports are closed; He has the support of the military and people are rallying at the Pres Palace to support Correa. Notice the political analysts in this report: QUITO -(Dow Jones) -...

Protesters opposing an irrigation project in southern Peru are thought to be at risk of grave human rights violations after the President approved a new law allowing the use of the military during civil unrest, Amnesty International said. Residents in the town of Espinar and the nearby city of Cusco have been protesting against the Majes Siguas II irrigation project which they believe will restrict their water supply. On 11 September, in anticipation of the protests, the Peruvian...

Authorities of the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, have ordered the total evacuation of the town, which has been under siege since February of this year. The authorities issued the order when alleged paramilitaries raided San Juan Copala and said that they would massacre all supporters of the autonomous municipality. Alleged paramilitaries cut off water, electricity, and access to the town in February. They also stationed gunmen in the hills surrounding the town and...

President Felipe Calderon announced a plan Wednesday to protect journalists in Mexico, where violence against reporters has surged since the government launched a crackdown on drug traffickers nearly four years ago. The plan includes an early warning system in which reporters would have immediate access to authorities when threatened, the creation of a council to identify the causes behind attacks on reporters, legal reforms, and a package of "best practices" in journalism,...