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Chavez makes Colombia rebel call

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Source: BBC News

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called on the US and European governments to stop treating Colombian left-wing rebel groups as terrorists.

Mr Chavez said the Farc and ELN guerrilla movements were armies with a political project and should be recognised as such.

He was speaking a day after helping manage the Farc's release of two hostages held for more than five years.
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I ask you (Uribe) that we start recognising the Farc and the ELN as insurgent forces in Colombia and not terrorist groups, and I ask the same of the governments of this continent and the world," Mr Chavez said.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7184485.stm

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