IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 965 
Condemning the actions and statements of Venezuelan president Hugo Rafael 
Cha´vez Frı´as. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 7, 2008 
Mr. ISSA (for himself, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. KING of New 
York, Mr. DOOLITTLE, Mr. GALLEGLY, Mrs. BIGGERT, Mr. DANIEL E. 
LUNGREN of California, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mr. WALBERG, Mr. 
BILBRAY, Ms. FALLIN, Mr. KINGSTON, Mr. BUYER, Mr. WILSON of 
South Carolina, Mr. KELLER of Florida, Mr. SALI, Mr. PITTS, Ms. 
FOXX, Mr. REHBERG, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. BROUN of Georgia, and Mr. 
CAMPBELL of California) submitted the following resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning the actions and statements of Venezuelan 
president Hugo Rafael Cha´vez Frı´as. 
Whereas on May 14, 2007, for the second year in a row, the 
State Department determined, pursuant to Section 40A 
of the Arms Export Control Act, that Venezuela was not 
fully cooperating with United States in antiterrorism ef-
forts; 
Whereas other uncooperative countries include state sponsors 
of terrorism, such as Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and 
Syria; 
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•HRES 965 IH 
Whereas State Department officials expressed concerns about 
groups and individuals in Venezuela with links to ter-
rorist organizations in the Middle East; 
Whereas Venezuelan president Hugo Cha´vez is seeking closer 
economic, military, and diplomatic ties with Iran and 
North Korea; 
Whereas in April 2006, the State Department asserted that 
the Cha´vez government sought closer relations with Cuba 
and Iran in the agency’s Country Reports on Terrorism; 
Whereas President Cha´vez persists with public criticism of 
the counterterrorism efforts of the United States and 
publicly championed Iraqi terrorist and insurgent groups; 
Whereas the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia 
(FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN) are 
on the State Department’s list of designated foreign ter-
rorist organizations; 
Whereas President Cha´vez publicly claimed FARC and the 
ELN are not terrorist groups, and defended their status 
as true armies that occupy real space in their country; 
Whereas the Cha´vez government allowed units of FARC and 
the ELN to cross into Venezuela to rest and regroup 
with relative impunity; 
Whereas the Cha´vez government allowed splinter groups of 
FARC and the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia, 
known as the AUC, involved in drug trafficking to oper-
ate in various parts of Venezuela; 
Whereas terrorist groups in Colombia have been found to be 
in possession of weapons belonging to official Venezuelan 
stocks and facilities; and 
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Whereas the Cha´vez government continues to remain indif-
ferent to the activities and movements of terrorist groups 
operating in Venezuela: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) expresses its support for the Venezuelan 
people and their continued self-governance in an 
open, democratic form; 
(2) calls upon the Cha´vez government to imme-
diately implement measures to deny Venezuelan ter-
ritory and weapons from being used as resources by 
terrorist organizations; 
(3) urges the Cha´vez government to police its 
side of the 1,400 mile Venezuelan-Colombian border 
to prevent the movement of groups of armed men 
and narco-terrorists; 
(4) encourages the Cha´vez government to cease 
its supportive rhetoric toward anti-government gue-
rilla movements operating in neighboring countries 
and respect the sovereignty of those democratic gov-
ernments; 
(5) urges President Cha´vez to resume full co-
operation with the United States on counter-terror 
measures; and 
(6) calls upon the United States to examine the 
extent to which Venezuela may be designated as a 
terrorist sanctuary, defined as an area in the terri-
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•HRES 965 IH 
tory of a country that is used by a terrorist or ter-
rorist organization under a government which ex-
pressly consents to, or with knowledge, allows, toler-
ates, or disregards such use of its territory. 
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