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Chávez: Latin America needs Russia

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Chávez: Latin America needs Russia
Source: Associated Press

MOSCOW - President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela said in an interview broadcast yesterday that Latin America needs strong friendship with Russia to help reduce US influence and keep peace in the region. The interview aired as a Russian Navy squadron prepared to sail to Venezuela.

Venezuela recently hosted a pair of Russian strategic bombers and is preparing to conduct a joint naval exercise with Russia. Russian media say Chávez plans to visit Moscow Friday, his second trip in just over two months.

"Not only Venezuela, but Latin America as a whole, needs friends like Russia now as we are shedding this domination," Chávez told Russia's Vesti 24 television. "We need Russia for economic and social development, for all-around support, for the life of the peoples of our continent, for peace."

During the Cold War, Latin America became an ideological battleground between the Soviet Union and the United States....>





Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/... /
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