Chavez open to Russian strategic bombers using Venezuelan island

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has proposed to Russia using a Venezuelan island for temporary hosting of Russian long-range aviation, a top-ranking Russian Air Force official said Saturday.

"There is such a proposal on the part of the Venezuelan president. Chavez proposed to us a whole island with an airfield that we can use for temporary basing of strategic bombers,"

said Maj.-Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev, the chief of the long-range aviation staff...

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