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CARACAS, Tuesday August 22, 2006 | Update
Ecuadorian presidential candidate visits Chávez
Candidate Rafael Correa for political Movimiento Alianza
País party reported Tuesday that he held a meeting recently
with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
Correa told Ecuadorian TV channel Gamavisión that he
traveled to Venezuela to deliver a number of conferences.
When President Chávez heard from his visit, he invited
Correa to his parents' house in western Barinas state.
"I have no links with the Venezuelan Bolivarian movement,
but a personal friendship with President Hugo Chávez,"
Correa clarified. The candidate did not say if during his
meeting with Chávez they discussed issues related to
the elections in Ecuador next October 15th, Efe reported.
The candidate accepted Chávez's invitation. "But not
even in Caracas. He was at his parents' place in his state
of origin, Barinas. Therefore, we spent a pleasant night there,
a family supper. His mother herself put the table. Chávez
is a modest man."
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Domestic inflation stands at 1.7 percent
01:11 PM.
Economy.
Domestic inflation rate in Venezuela was 1.7 percent in January, at the same rate as in December 2009, despite currency devaluation at the start of the year decreed by President Hugo Chávez, a senior government source told Reuters on Tuesday.
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