TV station accused of links to FARC
Venezuela ? Telesur is again mired in controversy over its alleged links to Colombia’s leftist FARC guerrillas.
The Caracas-based TV channel, most of whose funding comes from the government of Hugo Chavez, was accused in May of faking the origin of a FARC video.
Now a Colombian journalist who works for the channel is accused of being a FARC collaborator.
William Parra, a freelance contributor who Telesur says is employed on “special projects,” has been summoned for questioning by anti-terrorism prosecutors in Colombia.
They say Parra’s name was found on the computers that belonged to the FARC’s No. 2, Raul Reyes, who was killed in March in a cross-border raid on his camp in Ecuador. Parra denies the charges.

