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Spain Separatists' Terror Link to Venezuela Appears Well-Trodden

Martin Arostegui

   MADRID - When the Basque terrorist group ETA's most wanted fugitive,
   Josu Ternera, accused of ordering a 1987 bombing that killed 11 people
   in Spain,was arrested across the border in France on May 17, he was
   using a Venezuelan passport with the false name of Bruno Marti.

   Days later, Spanish police dismantled the Guerrilla Army of the Free
   Galician People (EGPCG), another separatist group that had conducted
   bombings in northeastern Spain. That group's leader, Jose Gil, had
   attempted an escape to Venezuela.

   When Anna Gabriel, a head of the Catalan far-left separatist
   organization CUP, fled Spain last year to avoid arrest for allegedly
   inciting violence, her first stop was: Venezuela.

   "There is clear evidence of Venezuelan support for terrorist and
   separatist movements," said Ramon Peralta, a senior law professor at
   the Complutense University of Madrid, who believes that there are
   ideological ties between extremist groups and the Venezuelan
   government,which provides them key assistance.

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