Foreign Minister blames Mexican government sectors for anti-Venezuelan campaign

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Alí Rodríguez Araque put the blame on the Mexican government and media for launching a "sustained campaign" against Venezuela. So far, "it has not had any consequences and we do not think there will be any."

In November 2006, Venezuela and Mexico recalled their ambassador following a diplomatic mismatch between Mexican President Vicente Fox and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez.

In a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Araque complained of "a sustained campaign from Mexico in very powerful media sectors that are linked with government sectors against Venezuela."

"The Mexican people -who have been the victim of the United States that swallowed most of their territory- will manage to straighten the way and create a situation to reestablish longstanding cordial relations between Mexico and Venezuela," the official added.

Concerning relations with the United States, "the big empire has tried to impose its conditions and political schemes in Venezuela, and this is inadmissible from any point of view."

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IISS: The FARC financed Chávez before 1999

10:07 AM. DIPLOMACY. Admired by the Colombian guerrilla after his coup attempt in 1992, the then lieutenant colonel Hugo Chávez Frías received financial support by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) for his projects after his capture that year. This mostly explains the relationship and "debt" between the parties, as revealed by a paper of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) of the United Kingdom.