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Richard Beeston

Is the diplomatic editor of the Times

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Venezuela’s Chávez on Private Visit to Britain

by Richard Beeston, Tom Baldwin

London (United Kingdom) | 17 May 2006

HUGO CHÁVEZ, the President of Venezuela and one of Tony Blair’s most vocal critics abroad, arrives in London this weekend on a whirlwind visit during which he will be fêted by Ken Livingstone, Labour MPs and the TUC but will avoid contact with the Prime Minister and his Government.