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Chavez: Lech Walesa unwelcome in Venezuela
President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that Lech Walesa will be barred from entering Venezuela if the Nobel Peace Prize laureate attempts to come to lend his support to opposition groups.Anti-Chavez university students invited Walesa to a pro-democracy conference last year, but the former Polish leader did not attend. The Warsaw-based Lech Walesa Institute said at the time that Walesa decided to skip the event after Poland's foreign ministry informed him that Venezuela could not guarantee his security. Chavez instructed authorities on Tuesday to ensure that Walesa does not enter Venezuela, which is preparing for a Feb. 15 referendum on a proposal to lift term limits for all elected officials. Chavez made the comment after an interviewer suggested that Walesa had received a new invitation. Posted by: tipper 2009-02-11 |
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