Venezuelan TV station accused of links to FARC

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 number two, Raul Reyes, who was killed in March in a cross-border raid on his camp in Ecuador. This is the second time a Telesur journalist has been accused of links to the FARC. In November 2006, the channel's Bogota correspondent, Fredy Munoz, was held for over a month on similar charges before being released. Authorities later said fresh evidence had emerged, showing he was a guerrilla explosives expert, but were unable to rearrest him because he had disappeared.