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I ran this through a translation program and this is what came out

 

Spain sold to Venezuela material paramilitary and toxicological agents for 540.000 euro in the first semester of 2004

 

MADRID, 6 Abr. (EUROPE PRESS) -

 

Spain sold to Venezuela "material paramilitary or of security" and "toxicological agents and radioactive materials" for 539.603 euro in the first semester of 2004, according to is removed of the report on 'Spanish Exports carried out of Material of Defense and of Products and Technologies of Double Use' of the Department of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, al that had access Europe Press.

 

Venezuela figures as the twelfth defense material buyer to Spain in this period, during the one that the change of Government between Popular Party was produced and Spanish Socialist Party, whose leader, Jos? Luis Rodr?guez Zapatero, took possession of its charge April 17.

 

"CHEMICAL WAR".

 

According to the statistics that accompany al report and by categories of products, Venezuela was the only country al that they were sold him 'toxicological Agents and radioactive materials', classification in which, by definition, they are included "biological agents and radioactive materials" and "nervous agents for the chemical war". The sales of this type of weapon to Venezuela supposed a total of 30.374 euro.

 

The remainder, this is 509.229 euro, they consisted of exports of 'Material paramilitary or of security', category in which they are included "firearms or of projection by gas, viewfinders and telescopic sights or of intensification of light for weapons of soul bordered, bombs, grenades,, explosive devices, armored vehicles and every land with protection antibala, acoustic teams agitators of bewilderment, devices restrictores of the movement of the human beings and tubes.

 

DOUBLE USE.

 

As for the sales of products of double use (civil and military), Venezuela was, in the first semester of last year, the third buyer of Spain, absorbing the 11,5 percent of the exports.

 

In concrete, the Venezuelan Government spent 1.613.742 euro in "chemical substances for the petrochemical industry and curtidora", according to itself I need in the report.

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