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Hugo Chavez Denounces Conspiracy Against Venezuela

VENEZUELA , 30 April, 2007.- President Hugo Chavez denounced a conspiracy brewing against his country during talks at the Fifth Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Peoples of America (ALBA) that ended Sunday in Venezuela.

"I want to take this opportunity to denounce the attempt to put Venezuela on trial at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CIDH)," Chavez said on a live television broadcast from Barquisimeto, venue for the summit.

The Venezuelan leader underscored that a new conspiracy is in the works, taking as its starting point his government’s refusal to renovate the broadcast operating license of a TV station that has violated several regulations.

Chavez said that as part of the subversive plans, an explosive device was found three days ago at the Bolivian Embassy, as well as other bombs at other locations. He added that one of those, of very high powered explosive device, was placed at the government offices of the Venezuelan state of Miranda, reported Prensa Latina news agency.

Chavez further alerted about ongoing assassination plots against him. However, he promised that Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution will not be defeated at the ballot box nor by violence.

In other summit matters, at the request of Haitian President Rene Preval, an addendum was included in the final ALBA Summit document with a statement supporting freedom for the Cuban Five —five anti-terrorist fighters being held in US prisons.

The summit also condemned the United States for granting freedom on bail to confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage explained that the terrorist was an official CIA agent during the period when George Bush Sr. was president, and later kept on working for that organization, undercover.

The international fugitive escaped from a Venezuelan prison back in 1985 to avoid trial for a midair plane bombing that killed 73 persons. Posada also directed terrorist actions during the 1990s against tourist facilities in Cuba, during which a young Italian tourist was killed. He also planned an assassination attempt against President Fidel Castro in Panama during the 2000 Ibero-American Summit. (Cubaminrex-PL)

 

 

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