Source:
El Universal - opposition newspaperCaracas, Tuesday May 20 , 2008
Rodríguez Chacín denies "direct link" between Chávez and the FARC
Minister of the Interior and Justice Ramón Rodríguez Chacín on Tuesday stated that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has not had a "direct link" with the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC).
Rodríguez Chacín added that the "only contacts" between the Venezuelan government and the FARC were carried out by myself, at request of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe's government and within the framework of the peace process," reported Efe.
Chávez and opposition Colombian Senator Piedad Córdoba mediated the exchange of 45 hostages held by FARC for some 500 rebels in Colombian jails.
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