Chavez accused the CIA in preparing the assassination attempt on himself.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused the CIA in preparing the assassination attempt on himself, reported AP.
According to Chavez, because of the threat of assassination he had to cancel a visit to the inauguration of new president of El Salvador: the Venezuelan secret services had reliable information that the aircraft, which was supposed to fly Chavez, planned to shoot down a missile. According to the President, the American secret service was a plan in cooperation with the assassination of Luis Posada Carriles, Venezuelan born in Cuba, champion of the regime of Fidel Castro. Karilesa, a former CIA officer, believed responsible for several attacks, including - for the bombing at the Cuban airliner in 1976, which killed 73 people.
In the U.S., he was arrested for illegal stay in the country, but in 2007 was released on bail. 81-year-old refused to extradite Carriles to Venezuela because of the fact that there is to it may apply torture. In his speech, Chavez once again demanded that the United States to extradite to Venezuela Karrilesa.Ranee Chavez has repeatedly accused the United States in the intention to kill or topple him, but such assertions were made for the first time since the President of the Venezuelan leader to Barack Obama, held in April in Trinidad and Tobago. Chavez said he had not accused the president of the USA: in his view, Obama have good intentions, but it is worth an entire empire, led by TsRU.Predyduschy time of the disclosure of conspiracy against the Venezuelan president, prepared by retired military and the opposition, with the participation of U.S. secret services, was announced in September 2008. On suspicion of organizing the assassination attempt and gosperevorota two pe!
rsons were arrested.