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CARACAS, Wednesday September 23, 2009 | Update
No decision on Venezuelan combat planes, says Ecuador's Defense Minister
Western Hemisphere
Javier Ponce, the Ecuadorian Minister of Defense, said that his government is in talks with Venezuela about the possibility of donations of "tools" to recover the Mirage fleet. However, he said that there are still no decisions on this matter, the Ecuadorian press said on Wednesday.
"We have been in talks (with Venezuela) about the possibility of donating some tools that could be useful in the recovery of our Mirage fleet. We have not decided anything yet," Ponce told El Universo newspaper, as reported by Efe.
According to the newspaper, the Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE) will submit on Thursday a technical report to Minister Ponce on the advisability for the Ecuadorian Armed Forces of accepting a possible donation of a fleet of Mirage 50 from Venezuela.
Rodrigo Bohórquez, the commander of the FAE, said that he was revising the offer made by Hugo Chávez's government, the newspaper reported.
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Domestic inflation stands at 1.7 percent
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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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