Posted on 12/26/2007 5:45:31 PM PST by NormsRevenge
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned on Wednesday that a plot to assassinate him was being hatched in Guatemala, saying he might not attend the inauguration of the country's new president next month because of the alleged scheme.
"I've received very recent information that worries us about Guatemala and puts at risk my attendance at the swearing-in of President (Alvaro) Colom," Chavez told a news conference in Venezuela's capital, Caracas.
Chavez, an outspoken critic of President Bush, has alleged similar plots in the past and accused Washington of backing the plan.
"The government of the United States, is always conspiring — not only to overthrow me (but), sometimes, even to kill me," Chavez said. "Hopefully there is a way to neutralize these plans."
U.S. officials have repeatedly dismissed Chavez's accusations of U.S.-backed plots as ridiculous. A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman in Caracas did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Juan Carlos Leal, director of Guatemala's SAAS security force which guards visiting dignitaries, denied having any knowledge of the purported plot, saying "we haven't heard anything about this."
Guatemala's government had not received information regarding Chavez's plans for the Jan. 14 inauguration, Leal said.
Chavez suggested that Luis Posada Carriles, a 79-year-old former CIA operative and fierce opponent of Fidel Castro living in the United States, was involved in the alleged conspiracy, but he did not elaborate.
The governments of Cuba and Venezuela want Posada extradited to face charges that he plotted a deadly 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner while living in Caracas. Posada has denied he was involved.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez speaks during a news conference at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007. Chavez said that he hopes three hostages will be freed by Colombian rebels within hours, and that Venezuela has planes and helicopters ready to pick them up inside Colombia if the U.S.-backed government allow them in. (AP Photo/Howard Yanes)
Chavez said that he hopes three hostages will be freed by Colombian rebels within hours ..
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He’ll probably get a Nobel for this. (posthumously, if we’re lucky) ;-)
even paranoids have real enemies...
And they’d get me yust aboot here.
Cuba's Acting President Raul Castro (2nd L) holds up a rifle, used by Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra mountains, next to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (L) in Santiago de Cuba December 22, 2007. Picture taken December 22, 2007. Convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro has gained weight, is exercising twice daily and is in full control of his mental faculties in a signal of his recovery, his brother Raul Castro said on Monday. (Marcelino Vazquez/AIN/Handout/Reuters)
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (L) and Cuba's acting President Raul Castro wave to supporters from a vehicle during a visit to Santiago, Cuba December 22, 2007. Chavez bolstered his cooperation with Cuba on Saturday by signing energy, farming and finance accords, including a deal to expand of one of his socialist ally's oil refineries. REUTERS/Miraflores Palace/Handout
Moon + Bat
The little tyrant sure is paranoid a lot. Do you think he realizes he is as a big of a-hole as the rest of the world sees him as being?
The government of the United States, is always conspiring — not only to overthrow me (but), sometimes, even to kill me,” Chavez said. “Hopefully there is a way to neutralize these plans.”
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Perhaps a last smoke and then shoot yourself Hugo.
He is right on the one point, I bet the US would like to off him.
Bush: "YEAH, Yeah, yeah, WHATever... just fill'er up MonkeyBoy!!!"
Who's he planning on assassinating?
Let his paranoia get the best of him.
I would’ve thought the King of Spain might have been on Chavez’s short list.
It worked! I started this rumor on an obscure website a few weeks ago. Man! the web works fast. I can’t remember the title of the post but I think one could search it if one uses search terms like “sulphur + small male digit”, or “big latin-mouth and small manhood”, or “ fat-a$$ + = shakey knees”.
This guy is all hat and no cattle.
Where is the 82nd Airborne when we need them?
U.S. officials have repeatedly dismissed Chavez’s accusations of U.S.-backed plots as ridiculous.
Official U.S. Embassy communque.
Any assassasination plots referrenced by Mr. Chavez
are not OUR plots, that is not to say however, that we don’t HAVE plots, he just won’t discover ours until the last moment of his life.
Pretty smart this one; it was probably that evil Snowball plotting against him.
Dictators are always bedeviled by assassination plots, most in their minds, a few, however, real. The real ones are the ones that the jefe never dreamed of.
Paranoia - Self Destroy - Ya....
He’s probably scared to leave his country...he’s scared he’ll lose his job?
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