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CARACAS, Friday November 13, 2009 | Update
President Chávez backs Roussef as Lula's successor
Western Hemisphere
During the opening of the International Book Fair 2009 (Fitven), Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez lobbied for Brazilian Minister Dilma Rousseff as the next president of Brazil.
"It's good for us to say this name, repeat it, and prompting here Brazilian Minister Dilma Rousseff as the new president of Brazil. Dilma, Dilma, Dilma," said Chávez, as quoted by AFP.
"We will get to know her. She was a prisoner of the rightwing dictatorship and tortured," said Chávez, who added that she was a member of "the revolutionary leftwing in the sixties."
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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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