Venezuelan link to Eta

A Spanish judge yesterday accused Venezuela of collaborating with Basque separatist militants and Colombian rebels, and said the two groups plotted to assassinate Colombian Presidents Andres Pastrana and Alvaro Uribe.

Judge Eloy Velasco made the allegation in a 26-page indictment in which he charged six members of the Basque group Eta, most of them exiled in Latin America, and seven members of the Colombian leftist rebel group Farc with a variety of crimes including terrorism and conspiracy to commit murder.