Venezuela's Chavez denies plans to finance leftist party in El Salvador [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: International Herald Tribune/Associated Press

Venezuela's Chavez denies plans to finance leftist party in El Salvador
The Associated Press
Published: February 10, 2008

BARINAS, Venezuela: President Hugo Chavez has rejected a U.S. allegation that Venezuela plans to send campaign money to El Salvador's main leftist party, calling it a lie.

Chavez scoffed at accusations by U.S. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell that his government plans to help finance the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, saying that sending money was unnecessary because the FMLN is a "solid" and "well-organized" party with popular support.

"It's a lie. We don't need to do that, and they don't need it," Chavez said.
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Chavez noted that Alex van Schaick — a Fulbright scholar currently working in Bolivia — said this week that a U.S. Embassy official in Bolivia's capital of La Paz asked him to keep tabs on Venezuelan and Cuban workers in Bolivia.
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"As soon as this was brought to our attention, appropriate measures were taken to assure that these errors would not be repeated," the statement said.




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