Vicente Fox: Chávez is meddling in Mexican affairs

Mexican President Vicente Fox Tuesday accused his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez of interfering with Mexican domestic affairs, as he has made repeated statements about the election held in Mexico last July 2, Efe reported.

"I believe this is an intromission of Mr. Chávez and his opinion about Mexican affairs that do not pertain to him," Fox told reporters in New York, where he is taking part as of Wednesday in the United Nations General Assembly.

"Mexico has strong institutions, and it does complete successions, and we certainly reject all of these criticisms, particularly because they come from a Head of State of a friendly nation such as Venezuela," Fox added in a communiqué issued by his office.

Last weekend, Chávez told news network CNN that last July 2 presidential election was "robbed." Pro-government Felipe Calderón won the election over leftwing candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador with a 0.56 percent lead.

When asked about a likely meeting with Chávez in New York, Fox replied that such a meeting "is not scheduled."

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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.