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Weekly Report - 6 November 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
VENEZUELA: Suitcase case goes against Chávez
President Hugo Chávez is calling for the
expropriation of the petrochemical company Industrias Veneco, owned by two
Venezuelan businessmen linked to the “suitcase case" in Miami, because the
owners, Franklin Durán and Carlos Kauffmann, had acted “against the fatherland".
Chávez 's announcement came days before a US jury delivered a unanimous guilty
verdict in the trial of Durán. US prosecutors accused him of acting illegally on
behalf of his government inside the US. Venezuela's foreign minister, Nicolás
Maduro, accused the US of attempting to “criminalise" the Chávez
administration.
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