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CARACAS, Thursday August 31, 2006 | Update
The second load of Russian rifles arrives in Venezuela
The second load of Kalashnikov AK-103 rifles that the Venezuela
Government bought from Russia arrived on Wednesday.
A total of 72 containers with 32,000 rifles and 25,000 ammunition
boxes were received by Venezuelan Navy in Puerto Cabello,
central Carabobo state.
The first 30,000 rifles were received on June 3rd. The third
and last load to complete the 100,000 rifles bought by Hugo
Chávez' Government is expected before the end of the
year, according to military sources.
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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.
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