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Economy & Business - October 2005
VENEZUELA: Business hails talks with Chávez
The president of the industrialists' association, José Luis Betancourt, has high expectations of his formal meeting with President Chávez , scheduled for 25 October. Betancourt said that the first contact for four years between his organization, Fedecámaras, and the government, on 7 October, had gone well.
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