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Les USA accusent le Venezuela du placement secret d'élection
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Rory Carroll à Caracas
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Les procureurs aux USA ont accusé le Venezuela de placer secrètement la campagne d'élection de président nouvellement inauguré de l'Argentine, Cristina Kirchner. La réclamation a mis à feu une rangée politique entre les trois pays.
Les procureurs ont dit une cour de Miami mercredi qu'une valise remplie presque de $800.000 (£392,000) arrêtés à l'aéroport de Buenos Aires était un paiement du gouvernement du Président Hugo Chávez. Le Venezuela et l'Argentine ont rejeté l'allégation comme souillure politiquement motivée.
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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