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Venezuela expresses condolences to Spain over air crash

Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez sent his condolences to the Spanish people and government over a Gran Canaria-bound Spanair jet crashed on Wednesday, which left 153 people dead.

"In this tragic moment, Venezuelans express our solidarity and fraternity to relatives and friends of the victims of such terrible disaster," read a communiqué released by the President's Office in Caracas, as quoted by AFP.

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04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."

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