Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia and Nicaragua on Wednesday signed a food security deal and voiced support for politically strained Bolivia at an emergency summit, host President Hugo Chavez said. Chavez, hosting President Evo Morales of Bolivia, Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega and Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage, set up a food security fund with an initial 100 million dollars.
Chavez said the fund was an "urgent geopolitical issue" particularly for Bolivia. Impoverished Bolivia is facing a referendum vote in May, in which relatively prosperous eastern provinces are seeking greater autonomy from La Paz and its socialist policies. Leaders here called in a final statement for "firm rejection of destabilisation plans that are aimed at upsetting Bolivia's peace and unity."
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