U.S. Says Venezuela Tried to Give $800,000 to Argentine
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LIMA, Peru, Dec. 12 -- The United States on Wednesday said it had evidence that Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's government tried to secretly funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to the campaign of Argentina's new president.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused opposition presidential candidates of taking orders and receiving secret funding from the U.S. government during campaigning ahead of this year's elections.
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A man who tried to fund an Argentine campaign was offered a bribe to hide Venezuelan sources, a US court hears.
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Argentina submitted on Monday to the US Securities and Exchange Commission its offer to restructure $100 billion in defaulted debt, clearing the way for a world-record debt swap, Economy Ministry spokesman
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- The line forms every day after dawn at the Spanish Consulate, hundreds of people seeking papers permitting them to abandon Venezuela for new lives in Spain. They say they are filled with despair at President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's growing power, and they appear not to be alone. At other consulates in this capital, long lines form daily....
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The United States said on Thursday  it was troubled by Russian plans to sell Venezuela arms that  U.S. officials suggest could be used to aid leftist guerrillas  in Latin America.
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A Venezuelan man has been charged with laundering drug profits to buy U.S. aircraft to smuggle cocaine, according to U.S. court documents, as the FBI broadens a probe into South American cocaine kings.
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The United States and Spain on Friday demanded Venezuelan President Hugo reopen an anti-government television station he banned and accused him of repressing free speech.
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Argentina said Tuesday it has sent Spain an extradition request for former President Isabel Peron, who is wanted for questioning about a disappearance that occurred when death squads terrorized the country during her rule.
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President Hugo Chavez said his foreign minister was detained by U.S. authorities at a New York airport Saturday for more than hour as he tried to return to the South American country.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela on Monday accused  the United States of imperialist blackmail after President Bush  ordered a cut in U.S. assistance because he said the South  American state was not doing enough to fight the trafficking of  women and children for sex.
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The U.S.-backed interim government started giving financial compensation Tuesday to former soldiers who helped oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in an effort to mollify rebels whose refusal to disarm is thwarting efforts to restore stability in Haiti.
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By Pascal Fletcher CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President HugoChavez criticized the United States on Sunday for backingColombia in a dispute over the abduction of a top Colombianrebel and said Washington was trying to divide Latin America.
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Kidnappers of Maura Villareal, mother of Detroit Tigers relief pitcher Ugueth Urbina, have demanded a ransom payment of $15 million, according to Venezuela Electronic News.
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Facing skeptics in the new Democratic-led U.S. Congress, President Alvaro Uribe pleaded with the American public on Thursday to continue a $700 million annual aid package that he credits for making his violence-tortured nation more peaceful and less corrupt.
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Venezuela demands the US extradite one of its nationals wanted for bombing a Cuban jet in 1976.
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Eight people are convicted in Venezuela over their role in a failed coup against Hugo Chavez in April 2002.