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Chávez reveals assassination plans of Posada
Carriles’ buddies
CARACAS, March 4 — Venezuelan
President Hugo Chávez warned today that that plans
to assassinate him “have become weightier” and he
accused associates of Cuban-born terrorist Luis
Posada Carriles of being involved, PL reported.
In an interview without
journalist and former Vice President José Vicente
Rangel, Chávez said that the plans to kill him
include a car bomb and a missile attack against the
presidential jet.
The president noted that the idea
of assassination was gaining space in both national
and international media, given the unlikelihood of
removing him via a coup d’état or a popular
uprising.
In that respect, he noted that
John Negroponte, “a professional assassin,” was
recently sworn in as a U.S. assistant secretary of
State and that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
units had been activated.
He said that “they have assigned
to me special CIA units and real assassins, who are
not only here in Venezuela: they are also in South
America and Central America.”
“Recently, reports came from
Central America, for example. Posada Carriles’
people are very active in Central America and
looking for contacts in Venezuela. Among other
things, they are looking for large quantities of
explosives,” he stated.
(Translated by
Granma International)
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