they made an unseccsessful attempt in 2002, followed by funding and supporting an attempted coup. Why can't this administration respect the sovereignty of other nations????????
Chavez Says Washington Plots His Murder, U.S. Denies
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday he had evidence that the United States was planning to assassinate him, an accusation that a U.S. official quickly denied.
"We have enough evidence. ... If anything happens to me, the person responsible will be the president of the United States," Chavez told reporters in New Delhi. He did not offer any evidence.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=7816350
this is the most fucked up
"U.S. officials portray former paratrooper Chavez, a virulent critic of President Bush, as an authoritarian menace. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has singled out self-proclaimed socialist Chavez as a "destabilizing influence" in Latin America.
U.S. officials have also accused Chavez, a firebrand nationalist, of sheltering Colombian Marxist rebels and recently criticized Venezuelan purchases of Russian automatic rifles. "
this is slander for the most part. You'd think facilitating the economic collapse of Argentina or fucking up Equador would qualify as "destabalizing Influence" - arrogance and hypocracy.
Why can't Venuzuela buy russian weapons? should they be buying them from the US instead?