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CARACAS, Thursday October 23, 2008 | Update
Venezuela brands as "unacceptable" European resolution on disqualifications
Politics
Venezuela rejected "as unacceptable interference" and a measure
that "supports corruption" the resolution adopted by the European
Parliament (EP), which mainly criticizes the electoral disqualifications
of Venezuelan politicians accused of corruption.
"Only 52 of the 785 members of the European Parliament (MEP's),
all of them from right to extreme right parties," attended
Thursday's plenary session of the EP in Strasbourg, France,
that adopted "a measure that cannot be considered as a motion
of censorship. They have committed an unacceptable action
of interference in the internal affairs of a State, which,
to make things worse, does not belong to Europe. With this
resolution, the MEP's have supported corruption," said the
Venezuelan Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for Europe, Alejandro
Fleming
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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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