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| A Calypso collectionVenezuela’s Envoy: Rebel Talks Distorted(Newsday) |
| 2004-01-22 |
| EFL Venezuela’s foreign minister on Tuesday blamed the media for distorting comments by Colombia’s former foreign minister regarding President Hugo Chavez’s alleged ties with Colombian rebels. Roy Chaderton said the local media twisted Guillermo de Soto’s statements regarding a conversation between Chavez and former Colombian President Andres Pastrana, when Chavez allegedly spoke of a request for arms he received — and refused — from Colombia’s largest rebel group. "It’s a set up," Chaderton told a press conference. Chaderton said it was "an accusation coming from opposition and media madness in Venezuela." Maybe Chavez lent his speech writer to Howard Dean for the weekend. Castro might have arranged it. In the ongoing saga of As the Carribean Turns, Chavez just appointed his brother to be his |
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