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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez urged the Community of Andean Nations not go through with a proposed free trade pact with Europe because it would be worse than similar deals he has fiercely opposed with the United States.
Chavez yanked his country out of the five-nation Andean group last year after Peru and Colombia signed U.S. free trade deals. He has since refused appeals from his close ally Bolivian President Evo Morales to rejoin.
Chavez said Thursday that Morales had told him that in some areas the proposed deal with Europe were worse than those with the U.S., which he has argued are designed to only benefit the United States and its corporations.
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