WSJ/ J.de Cordoba
A series of 2007 oil for loan deals with China...are providing President Hugo Chávez with a sizable off the books slush fund...that can be used for his 2012 re-election.
The deals provided loans of up to $32 billion...at low interest rates...for oil at market prices.
The WSJ has examined the previously undisclosed documents.
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