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CARACAS, Wednesday October 08, 2008 | Update
Chávez says OPEC is calling for extraordinary meeting
Economy
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said on Wednesday that
the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is
holding an extraordinary meeting, at a time when oil prices
have dropped sharply amid concerns of global tumbling demand.
"(Venezuelan Minister of Energy and Petroleum) Rafael Ramírez
told me Tuesday night that an extraordinary meeting of OPEC
would be convened," said Chávez without elaborating during
at an economic forum, Reuters reported.
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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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