EADS-CASA en route to Caracas for parts-stripping brief

A group of EADS-CASA officials will travel to Caracas give the Chavez regime a progress report on how it is trying to circumvent US law.

The brief is about how successfully EADS-CASA is stripping US-made parts from the CN-235 and C-295 (pictured) military aircraft it is building for Chavez.

Covering Hugo Chavez's arms-buying visit to Moscow, Pravda reports, "EADS-CASA is now working to replace the American parts with European technology. A delegation from the company will travel to Venezuela to give the government a status report on the overhaul, Europa Press reported Thursday, citing Venezuelan Ambassador Arevalo Mendez."