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CARACAS, Monday June 29, 2009 | Update
Venezuela among the countries with poor governance
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Venezuela, together with Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Belarus and Eritrea, is one of the countries with poor performance worldwide, according to the report on Worldwide Governance Indicators published by the World Bank on a yearly basis.
Developing countries have made significant progress in their fight against corruption but, in general terms, the quality of governance all over the world has not improved in the last decade, said on Monday the World Bank.
According to the annual survey, which aggregates data from 35 sources and covers 212 countries and territories, countries such as Norway and New Zealand recorded the best performance.
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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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