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From: hoeger%CIENS.ULA.VE@uchcecvm.cec.uchile.cl (        RAFAEL AGUILAR)
Subject: Nota de prensa
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 11:13:57 CST

Salud hermanos.

Aqui tres notas de prensa, que quiza ya muchos de Uds. conocen,
disculpas a estos, pero quienes no las conocen, aqui va algo
nuevo...

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Subject:      NEWS:Latin Amer Newsbriefs 11/3 EDLP
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CHILE GETS NEW HEALTH MINISTER

Julio Montt has been appointed by President Patricio Alwyn
as Chile's new Health Minister. Former Health Minister Jorge
Jimenez quit his post after the crisis which grew out of some 900
emergency service doctors' threat of a walkout, demanding higher
salaries. Montt was the director of an exclusive private
hospital, Clinica Alemana, until November 2, when he was
appointed by Alwyn. He is a member of Alwyn's Christian Democrat
political party, and was a deputy representing that party during
the 1960s. During Montt's swearing-in ceremony President Alwyn
rejected the idea of privatizaiton as a solution to the economic
problems in the health care system. He said "The great challenge
is to find more efficent and decentralized formulas for health
care services."

On October 31, the protesting doctors agree to postpone
their decision for a walk-out for one week. (AP 11/3)

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VENEZUELA: PEREZ DENIES COUP RUMORS

Venezuelan president Carlos Andres Perez denied reports published
in an Italian newspaper, "Il Messagero," that his foreign
minister, Fernando Ochoa, had stated that conditions exist in
Venezuela for a coup d'etat and that an eventual military
government would not scare away investors. "If these statements
were made outside of Venezuela," Perez said," it was not the
Foreign Minister who made them."

Ochoa is a retired general who, as Defense Minister, stopped
an attempted uprising by five lieutenant colonels on February 4.
He was warned repeatedly of the possibility of violence breaking
out if the "political class" does not carry out changes which the
Venezuelan people are demanding. According to "Il Messagero,"
Ochoa said that the military wants to make changes, including in
the political system and in the business sector. His alleged
declarations to the newspaper have cause quite a flap in
Venezuela. (AFP 11/3)

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COLOMBIAN PEACE TALKS STILL AT IMPASSE

The Colombia guerrilla group Simon Bolivar has blown up a
Colombia oil pipeline for a second time and carried out a number
of other attacks. The pipeline carries 240,000 barrels of oil
per day. The explosions have caused an oil spill of 85,000
barrels in the area of Orti, about 450 kilometers northeast of
Bogota causing contamination of water sources and farmland. The
guerrillas have been carrying out attacks in an effort to force
the government to enter peace negotations again. Peace talks
broke off last May, and were to have begun again on October 31.
President Gaviria has said his government will not enter peace
negotiations until the guerrillas cease attacks and kidnapping
and in addition will continue to build up the military until
guerrilla actions are stopped. (AP 11/3)

DEFENSE MINISTER BLAMED FOR ESCOBAR ESCAPE

Colombia's attorney general blames Minister of Defense
Rafael Pardo for the escape of drug trafficker Pablo Escobar from
prison on July 22, according to a news broadcast on "Notivision."
The report, to be issued publicly within the next few days, says
Pardo did not exercise enough authority over the military forces
while they were transporting Escobar to prison. (EFE 11/3)

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		Rafael Agular