05-03-2013, 08:50 PM
Published on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 by Common Dreams
Venezuela VP: Chávez's Cancer Was 'Attack' by Enemies
- Craig Brown, staff writer
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As Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez clings to life, Vice President Nicolas Maduro Tuesday accused 'domestic and foreign enemies' of Venezuela of poisoning Chávez and he announced that Venezuela is expelling a U.S. Embassy military attache for organizing military support for a plot against the government.
Maduro said the cancer afflicting Hugo Chávez was an "attack" by enemies among a barrage of conspiracies against Chávez throughout his 14-year presidency.
Maduro said US Air Force attache David Delmonaco has been spying on the Venezuelan military, meeting with right-wing military officers and planning to destabilize the country. Delmonaco has been given 24 hours to leave the country.
Maduro said Chávez was suffering "most difficult hours" since operation and that his doctors are with him while the nation is praying.
CNN is reporting:
[...] Some day, he told the press in a lengthy statement, there will be "scientific proof" that Chávez, fighting a battle with cancer, was poisoned. He also called Venezuela's political right-wing an "oligarchy" and an "enemy of the nation." Maduro urged supporters to close ranks and exercise "unity and discipline."
In December 2011, Chávez suggested that the U.S. may be behind a "very strange" series of cancers among leaders aligned with him in South America.
In 2011 Bloomberg news reported:
Chávez, speaking a day after Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, said the Central Intelligence Agency was behind chemical experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s and that it's possible that in years to come a plot will be uncovered that shows the U.S. spread cancer as a political weapon against its critics.
"It's very difficult to explain, even with the law of probabilities, what has been happening to some of us in Latin America," Chávez said in a nationally televised speech to the military. "Would it be so strange that they've invented technology to spread cancer and we won't know about it for 50 years?"
Chávez, who was diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer in June and had a baseball-sized tumor removed in Cuba, has called for a regional summit of leaders who have battled cancer including Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva and Paraguay's Fernando Lugo.
"I'm just sharing my thoughts, but it's very, very, very strange," Chávez said. "Evo take care of yourself, Correa, be careful, we just don't know," he said, referring to Evo Morales and Rafael Correa, the leaders of Bolivia and Ecuador.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/05-6
Venezuela VP: Chávez's Cancer Was 'Attack' by Enemies
- Craig Brown, staff writer
As Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez clings to life, Vice President Nicolas Maduro Tuesday accused 'domestic and foreign enemies' of Venezuela of poisoning Chávez and he announced that Venezuela is expelling a U.S. Embassy military attache for organizing military support for a plot against the government.
Maduro said the cancer afflicting Hugo Chávez was an "attack" by enemies among a barrage of conspiracies against Chávez throughout his 14-year presidency.
Maduro said US Air Force attache David Delmonaco has been spying on the Venezuelan military, meeting with right-wing military officers and planning to destabilize the country. Delmonaco has been given 24 hours to leave the country.
Maduro said Chávez was suffering "most difficult hours" since operation and that his doctors are with him while the nation is praying.
CNN is reporting:
[...] Some day, he told the press in a lengthy statement, there will be "scientific proof" that Chávez, fighting a battle with cancer, was poisoned. He also called Venezuela's political right-wing an "oligarchy" and an "enemy of the nation." Maduro urged supporters to close ranks and exercise "unity and discipline."
In December 2011, Chávez suggested that the U.S. may be behind a "very strange" series of cancers among leaders aligned with him in South America.
In 2011 Bloomberg news reported:
Chávez, speaking a day after Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, said the Central Intelligence Agency was behind chemical experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s and that it's possible that in years to come a plot will be uncovered that shows the U.S. spread cancer as a political weapon against its critics.
"It's very difficult to explain, even with the law of probabilities, what has been happening to some of us in Latin America," Chávez said in a nationally televised speech to the military. "Would it be so strange that they've invented technology to spread cancer and we won't know about it for 50 years?"
Chávez, who was diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer in June and had a baseball-sized tumor removed in Cuba, has called for a regional summit of leaders who have battled cancer including Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva and Paraguay's Fernando Lugo.
"I'm just sharing my thoughts, but it's very, very, very strange," Chávez said. "Evo take care of yourself, Correa, be careful, we just don't know," he said, referring to Evo Morales and Rafael Correa, the leaders of Bolivia and Ecuador.
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