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...company, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). Argentine customs agents then caught him with a suitcase stuffed with $800,000 in cash. Antonini was allowed to return to the U.S. - but it seemed the entire hemisphere wanted to know if he'd been carrying the money for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as some sort of bribe for the Argentine government...
...look as though the Bush Administration were ignoring its own uncompromising anti-terrorist tenets in order to spite Castro. A U.S. immigration judge ruled that Posada would likely be tortured if he is sent to Venezuela - which is ruled by the pro-Castro government of left-wing President Hugo Chavez; that argument, however, can hardly be made with regard to Panama. (Chavez has insisted his government would never mistreat Posada...
...part, the Bush Administration suggests that the Venezuelan government is hardly in a position to lecture the U.S. about double standards given Chavez's own unabashed support of Colombia's Marxist FARC guerrillas, which both Washington and the European Union have designated as terrorists. Though Chavez denies it, laptop computers seized from FARC commanders indicate Chavez has given the rebels, best known today for their kidnapping and drug-trafficking activities, significant political and financial...
...Either, way, pundits agree that it's as smart for Chavez to distance himself from the FARC as it is to backtrack on his new domestic intelligence law. They also suggest that the Venezuelan leader is keeping his radical burners on medium-low for now, in the hopes that fewer outbursts from Hurricane Hugo - who has previously called President Bush "the devil" and Uribe "a criminal" - could even help get a Democrat into the White House this fall. "[Chavez] may decide to go a little less gonzo in the coming months as a result," says Birns. Meanwhile, the rest...
...That was an amazing statement for him to make," says Birns. Chavez also called on the rebels to release all of their more than 750 hostages, including three U.S. defense contractors, without conditions. "It would be a great humanitarian gesture," said Chavez, who earlier this year brokered the release of a half dozen hostages...