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De V.S. beschuldigen Venezuela van geheime verkiezing financiering
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Rory Carroll in Caracas
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De eisers in de V.S. hebben Venezuela van in het geheim de financiering van de verkiezingscampagne van ingehuldigde voorzitter van Argentinië onlangs, Cristina Kirchner beschuldigd. De eis stak een politieke rij tussen de drie landen aan.
De eisers vertelden een hof van Miami op Woensdag dat een koffer die met bijna $800.000 (£392,000) wordt gevuld onderschept bij de luchthaven van Buenos aires een betaling van de overheid van President Hugo Chávez was. Venezuela en Argentinië verwierpen de bewering als politiek gemotiveerde vlek.
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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