to hell with the alegations. personally, viva Hugo S. m.luciano
providence, RI USA >From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Chavez on FARC allegations: 'It's a big lie' >Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 19:45:51 -0500 > > >AP. 1 February 2002. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Denies Supporting >Colombian Guerrillas. > >CARACAS -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez insisted Friday his >government isn't supporting leftist Colombian guerrillas. > >"It's a big lie," Chavez said, responding to speculation that >Venezuela's army has collaborated with Colombia's largest guerrilla >group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. > >That speculation resurfaced in local news media after Colombian >authorities on Thursday intercepted a private Venezuelan airplane >carrying a stockpile of arms and ammunition used by the guerrilla group, >known as the FARC. > >Since taking office in 1999, Chavez has denied allegations that his >government was secretly supporting Marxist guerrillas in Colombia's >civil war, where leftist rebels are fighting government forces and >rightist paramilitaries. > >"There are people who have endeavored, looking for anything, to convince >others that Hugo Chavez is supporting Colombian guerrillas. ... It's a >lie. We support peace," Chavez said. > >Chavez said he trusted that Colombian President Andres Pastrana "would >not suspect" Venezuela of aiding rebel groups. > >Colombia's ambassador to Venezuela, German Bula, said Colombia needed to >study the video. But he said relations between Colombia and Venezuela >have improved over the past year. With Colombia's endorsement, Venezuela >has acted as a mediator in efforts to end Colombia's 38-year-old civil >war. > >Foreign Minister Luis Alfonzo Davila met with Bula and said Friday there >would be no official comment about the video until "an evaluation" was >complete. > >Davila said the airplane captured in Colombia had taken off from Tachira >state in western Venezuela. The pilot, Julio Pena, and the plane's owner >are Venezuelan nationals, he said. Pena is in Colombian custody. > > > >. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > >Barry Stoller >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews > > > > Greetings comrades, Mark _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
