CARACAS, Thursday October 23, 2008 | Update
Politics
Venezuela rejected "as unacceptable interference" and a measure
that "supports corruption" the resolution adopted by the European
Parliament (EP), which mainly criticizes the electoral disqualifications
of Venezuelan politicians accused of corruption.
"Only 52 of the 785 members of the European Parliament (MEP's),
all of them from right to extreme right parties," attended
Thursday's plenary session of the EP in Strasbourg, France,
that adopted "a measure that cannot be considered as a motion
of censorship. They have committed an unacceptable action
of interference in the internal affairs of a State, which,
to make things worse, does not belong to Europe. With this
resolution, the MEP's have supported corruption," said the
Venezuelan Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for Europe, Alejandro
Fleming
05:09 PM. Economy. If any country has cashed in on the Bolivarian revolution, that is Brazil, particularly the private companies of the southern neighbor. Over the past five years, it has been awarded contracts for works to be carried out in Venezuela for over USD 14 billion. This puts it as the first recipient of government-to-government contracts, that is, without bidding, since Hugo Chávez took office.