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Argentine Prez Campaign Cash Tied to Chavez

Posted Dec 14, 07 4:29 AM CST in World 

(Newser) – US prosecutors are accusing the Hugo Chavez government of sneaking donations to the election campaign of new Argentine President Cristina Kirchner, writes the Guardian. A suitcase filled with $800,000, seized at Buenos Aires airport , was on its way from Caracas to Kirchner, one of the men involved in the delivery says. Kirchner angrily denied the allegations, calling them "garbage in international politics."

"This president may be a woman but she's not going to allow herself to be pressured," she said. Three Venezuelans and a Uruguayan were arrested this week and charged, in Miami, of coming to America to pressure the man who carried the suitcase—a South Florida resident with US and Venezualan citizenship—into keeping the source of the cash secret.

Sources Guardian (UK), New York Times

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Cristina Fernandez wears the presidential sash after being sworn in as Argentina's first elected female president at the National Congress in Buenos Aires, Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. At left Argentina's departing...   (Associated Press)
Cristina Fernandez waves to supporters as she arrives to a music festival in front of the presidential palace after she was sworn in as new president of Argentina in Buenos Aires, Monday, Dec. 10, 2007....   (Associated Press)
In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office,Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez gives to Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner a replica of the Simon Bolivar sword during a meeting...   (Associated Press)
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