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Article: PERU: VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ'S REMARKS ON PERUVIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SETS OFF DIPLOMATIC CONFLICT.
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- NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs
- Article date:
- January 27, 2006
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez raised the ire of the Peruvian government in January with comments on the electoral campaign underway in Peru. Peru's President Alejandro Toledo ordered his ambassador home after Chavez publicly praised and met with nationalist presidential candidate Ollanta Humala of the Partido Nacionalista Peruano (PNP), while attacking Humala's main competitor, Lourdes Flores Nano of the Unidad Nacional (UN) party. Peru alleged that Chavez was "interfering in the internal affairs" of the country, though Toledo later told the press that conflict had been "overcome."
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