Venezuelan president accuses opposition of engineering crisis
13/10/2008 17:15
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez yesterday accused the opposition of
engineering a political crisis in the country for next year in a renewed attempt
to overthrow him.
The opposition was preparing subversive plans together with
"the paramilitaries in Colombia, the extreme fascist right of Venezuela and the
US imperialist government," Chavez said at events marking the Discovery of
America, which is now celebrated in Venezuela as the Day of the Indigenous
Resistance.
Some observers saw Chavez' remarks as part of a political
strategy to win over more voters for his party in the local elections scheduled
for Nov. 23.
Chavez accused opposition leader Manuel Rosales, a candidate for
the mayoralty of Maracaibo, the second-largest city of Venezuela, of making
coups and subversive plans.
Xinhua
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