Sunday, May 11, 2008

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday denied backing Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday denied backing Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels following renewed charges by U.S. officials that have heightened tensions between the United States and the OPEC nation.
U.S. officials, speaking anonymously, last week said Chavez's ties to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, were more extensive that previously thought, citing files found in a slain FARC commander's laptop computer.
'Whatever they want they will find -- it's ridiculous,' Chavez said during a weekly broadcast in which he accused Colombian authorities of faking the computer files to smear his government.



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