Castro Says He Warned Chavez About US
- From: Bob Brock <bbrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:15:40 -0500
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8T84G8O0&show_article=1
HAVANA (AP) - Fidel Castro said Friday he has warned Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez to watch out for U.S.-backed assassination
attempts, telling his close friend and socialist ally to avoid
open-top vehicles that could be targeted by snipers.
The 81-year-old Castro said Venezuela is facing "a world tyranny" as
voters decide Sunday on constitutional changes that would give Chavez
unchecked power to further transform the South American country into a
socialist state.
"The empire has created conditions conducive to violence and
internecine conflicts" in Venezuela, Castro wrote in an essay
published in Cuba's two leading official newspapers, referring to the
U.S.
Castro has not been seen in public since emergency intestinal surgery
forced him to cede power to his younger brother Raul in July 2006.
Since then, no foreign head of state has visited the ailing
revolutionary more than Chavez, who was last in Cuba less than two
weeks ago.
"On Chavez's recent visit last Nov. 21, I seriously discussed with him
the risks of assassination as he is constantly out in the open in
convertible vehicles," wrote Castro, who himself survived dozens of
CIA-backed attempts on his life since leading the Cuban revolution in
Castro noted his own experience as a combatant trained in the use of
automatic weapons with telescopic sights.
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