Spanish Civil Guard: ETA computer expert visited Venezuela

[Bacchus39]

http://english.eluniversal.com/2011/01/11/en_pol_esp_spanish-civil-guard:_11A4963093.shtml

In October 2010, two alleged ETA members told Judge Ismael Moreno, of the Spanish National Court, that they received training in Venezuela in 2008

A day after ETA, the armed Basque separatist movement, announced a new ceasefire, the French and Spanish security forces detained the alleged "computer brain" of the Basque armed group, who is suspected of training members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Venezuela.

Iraitz Guesalaga, who was arrested in the French town of Ciboure, on the border with Spain, was in charge of ETA's computer security, DPA reported.

The Civil Guard believes that Guesalaga and his girlfriend Itsaxo Urtiaga traveled in 2007 or 2008 to Venezuela to train members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the development of applications to encrypt documents.

[naaman fletcher]

1. I wonder why

Two terrorist organizations thought that Venezuela was a safe place for them to operate.

[social_critic]

2. It's a fairly chaotic place

I guess it's because Venezuela is fairly chaotic. And if you go to Western Venezuela, say in Zulia near the Colombian border, that's no man's land. I went in there a couple of times, and it's an area where, when you see somebody else approach, you get goose bumps, because you don't know if they're about to start shooting. Remember the PDVSA employees massacred a few years ago?