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U.S. Details Talks With Opposition
Posted: Wednesday, April 17, 2002

Administration Insists It Did Not Encourage a Coup

The Bush administration acknowledged yesterday that senior U.S. officials had met with a number of Venezuelan opposition figures in recent months, including key leaders of last Friday's abortive coup, but insisted it had never encouraged them to mount a coup against President Hugo Chavez.

"United States officials explicitly made clear repeatedly to opposition leaders that the United States would not support a coup," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said. MORE



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