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Chavez says studying Colombian FARC hostage release

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Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:34pm EST

MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday he was studying a proposal by a Colombian rebel group offering to turn over three of their hostages to him.

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Chavez, who was in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo for a meeting of the Mercosur trade bloc, said he had not decided how to proceed with the proposal from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC.

(Reporting by Patricia Avila, Writing by Kevin Gray, editing by Doina Chiacu)
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