Abbas meets Chavez in Venezuela
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas made his first visit to Venezuela on Friday as part of a South American tour that has taken him to Brazil, Argentina and Chile to build support for a Palestinian state.
He met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, one of the Palestinians' most vociferous defenders, who denounced Israel as "a murderous arm of the Yankee empire" during a visit Wednesday by Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (AP)
