http://english.people.com.cn/200512/17/eng20051217_228851.html
"Venezuela started on Friday [16/12/2005] to use new passports under a Community of Andean Nations (CAN) regional passport plan. The new Andean passport meets all the international security standards for identification documents, said Hugo Cabezas, head of the National Office for Foreigners and Identification.
Cabezas said this is the first phase in the full homogenization of documents across the Andean region which will take place by 2010. New Venezuelan passports will bear the Andean insignia, but old ones will also be accepted during the transition period, he said.
The CAN nations -- Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia -- have a combined population of 120 million and cover an area of 4.7 million square km. " [Snippet]
