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Los E.E.U.U. acusan Venezuela del financiamiento secreto de la elección
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Rory Carroll en Caracas
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Los querellantes en los E.E.U.U. han acusado Venezuela secretamente de financiar la campaña lectoral de presidente nuevamente inaugurado de la Argentina, Cristina Kirchner. La demanda encendió una fila política entre los tres países.
Los querellantes dijeron una corte de Miami el miércoles que una maleta llenara de casi $800.000 (£392,000) interceptados en el aeropuerto de Buenos Aires fuera un pago del gobierno de presidente Hugo Chávez. Venezuela y la Argentina rechazaron la alegación como borrón de transferencia político motivado.
Kirchner, thrown on the defensive on her first week in the job, said it was an example of “garbage in international politics” and that the US wanted to “subordinate” other nations. “This president may be a woman but she’s not going to allow herself to be pressured.”
The row revives suspicions that Chávez has used Venezuela’s oil revenues to sponsor allies to try to forge a Latin American front against the US, which he terms “the empire”. If the charges stick they will taint Venezuela and erode the credibility of Argentina’s first elected female head of state. Both governments said it was an attempt to drive a wedge between Chávez and the rest of the region.
Venezuela’s foreign minister, Nicolás Maduro, said it was a fabricated scandal. “It is a desperate effort by the US government using the judicial branch for a political, psychological, media war against the progressive governments of the continent.”
Three Venezuelans and a Uruguayan are charged with failing to register with the US as agents of a foreign power. All were arrested on Tuesday night.
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