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CARACAS, Thursday May 17, 2007 | Update
Euro-parliamentarians start visit to Venezuela
A group of five congressmen for European People's Party (EPP)
just started a visit to Venezuela in order to learn first-hand
about the demise of a broadcast license for private TV channel
Radio Caracas Televisión, ahead of a motion they are
to propose at the European Parliament, AFP reported.
Fernando Fernández, José García-Margallo,
José Ribeiro, Sergio Marques and Daniel Hannan landed
in Wednesday.
The European deputies have met with multiple opposition political
parties and also with RCTV CEO Marcel Granier.
They will also appear at the National Assembly (AN) to hold
a meeting with AN chair Cilia Flores.
The crew plans to propose next May 24th at the European Parliament
a motion against RCTV closure.
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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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