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CARACAS, Monday July 27, 2009 | Update
FM Maduro denounces "campaign" against Venezuela
Foreign Affairs
Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Nicolas Maduro on Monday described as a "brutal campaign" against his country the reports that Swedish weapons sold to Caracas were seized by the Colombian government from the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC).
Maduro stressed that such accusations are aimed at "justifying" the military agreement that Bogotá and Washington are pondering and which will allow the US to use military bases in Colombia, reported AFP.
"This campaign that begins today has only one goal: to justify the presence of US military bases in Colombian soil," added Maduro.
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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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