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Senator Córdoba: Termination of Chávez's mediation should not ignite a war

Colombian Senator Piedad Córdoba Thursday made a call to prevent Colombian President Álvaro Uribe's move to terminate President Chávez's mediation and her role as a facilitator in talks with the rebel FARC from fueling "a war."

"This needs to be addressed with a huge serenity, with calm, without making a war out of this. This is a very important and meaningful lesson," where she would continue to work, she told reporters upon leaving a hotel in Caracas in her way to meet with Chávez in the presidential palace of Miraflores.

"I am simply going to wait until I meet with President Chávez. He heard about the news only this morning too, I think. We are likely to make a statement," she added.

Córdoba thanked Uribe for the opportunity he gave her, AFP reported.

"The only thing I have to do is thank the government that gave me this huge opportunity," said Córdoba, a Senator opposed to Uribe's government.

She also thanked "President Chávez and the people, and I will never regret having worked with them."


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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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