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World Wants To Know: Who Killed Hugo Chavez? US Plot? 6 Anti-US South American Leaders Die
In Moscow, Gennady Zyuganov, leader of Russia’s Communist party, is among those who believe Chavez’s death was the result of unspecified external forces, according to the Russian newspaper Ria Novosti. “How did it happen that six leaders of Latin American countries which had criticized U.S. policies and tried to create an influential alliance in order to be independent and sovereign states, fell ill simultaneously with the same disease?” Zyuganov said in comments carried by Russian state television. “In my view, this was far from a coincidence,” said Zyuganov, the head of Russia’s second-largest political party. He urged an investigation under “international control” into Chavez’s death.
The Venezuelan president had not been seen in public this year since his return from Havana, where he was being treated for cancer. Indeed, some suspect he died in Cuba and his body was quickly flown back to Caracas.
Their paranoia has been given additional fuel by Nicolas Maduro, his vice-president and expected successor. Speaking immediately after Chavez’s death was announced, he pointed the finger at the opposition and that favourite whipping boy, the United States, reports Jonathan Watts for The Guardian.
It wouldn’t be the first time the Venezuelan government has claimed a foreign plot could be behind the leader’s cancer, CNN noted. morehere
