Chavez lashes out at Chile's top cop, Interpol

Reuters:

Chile defended one of its top police officials on Friday after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez charged he was being probed for dictatorship-era abuses, saying the leftist leader was "badly informed" and wrong.

Chavez said late that Thursday Arturo Herrera, head of Chile's investigative police branch and acting president of international police agency Interpol, was being probed over abuses committed during Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 dictatorship.

Chavez was reacting to an Interpol report issued on Thursday that authenticated documents Colombia says prove Venezuela's leftist leader has supported FARC guerrillas.

"We think President Chavez has been badly informed about what he has publicly stated," Deputy Interior Minister Felipe Harboe told reporters at Chile's presidential palace. "The government of Chile absolutely endorses the director general of Chile's investigative police unit."

"The information given to President Chavez lacks veracity," he added. "There is no such accusation of any kind against our director general of the investigative police unit, and it is important to make that clear."

Herrera is Interpol's senior vice president, and took up the mantle of the organization's presidency pending its general assembly due in October.

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Chavez is attacking the messenger to distract from message that he has been caught helping narco terrorist. The Chavez style is to insult and attack rather than respond to reasoned arguments and the facts.

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