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The Controversial Venezuela's President Chavez dies at 58
Other | Wednesday 6th March 2013 | Serena
Hugo Chavez is dead. The man who lead Venezuela for the last 14 years passed away yesterday night after a long battle with cancer.
The announcement was made by the vice-president Nicolas Maduro, that immediately take the lead as interim president before the election day -that will take place in 30 days from today to choose the new President of Venezuela.The government guaranteed that the armed forces are deployed in the streets all over the country "to ensure the respect of the Constitution".
Hugo Chavez was only 58, but by mid-2011 he was fighting cancer, who brought him over the years to go under 4 surgeries - the last in December of 2012 - and in this latest days there were rumors that he was terminally ill. Immediately after the announcement many people poured on the street and the whole country is mourning the loss of their "grandmaster". But all the Latin America are expressing their sorrow and solidarity to Venezuela and the Cuban government has declared two days of national mourning for the death of Chavez, called the political "son" of Fidel Castro, who had welcomed him in Havana during his illness.
The Bolivarian President has not left us without controversy : shortly before the official announcement of the dead, Nicolas Maduro during a government meeting broadcast live on TV,has reported the existence of a "plan to destabilize" the Venezuela with the Chavez's disease.
"We have no doubt that the commander has been attacked with this disease, "said Maduro." This is a very serious issue.The traditional enemies of our country have long searched a way to damage Chavez. "
These statements do not arrive out of the blue: a plot by United States has long been discussed to eliminate the leaders of Latin America that does not have the same political vision of North America or that don't make a convenient use of the natural resources for North America. - in this case, the oil. In December 2011, Hugo Chavez himself talked about a conspiracy by pointing out that the five South America's leader had contracted cancer, and that perhaps the United States was behind this, also fueled by the comments of Fidel Castro warned him saying that the CIA had tried several times to kill him . “Would it be so strange that they’ve invented technology to spread cancer and we won’t know about it for 50 years?”Mr Chavez said. “It’s very difficult to explain, even with the law of probabilities, what has been happening to some of us in Latin America.”.Along with him, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner , president of Argentina, is suffering from thyroid cancer, but the survival rate are very high. But other his colleagues were defeated by cancer :Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff , her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the president of Paraguay Fernando Lugo.
The President who died yesterday continued to say in his speech to the troops about his 'godfather' Castro : “Fidel always tells me, 'Chavez be careful, they’ve developed technology, be careful with what you eat, they could stick you with a small needle.' . In any case, I’m not accusing anyone, I’m just using my freedoms to reflect and issue comments on very strange events that are hard to explain.”. Events that resurface immediately today, with controversy and dry answers by Us : "The statements (made by the vice-president Nicolas Maduro, ed.) are absurd and we totally reject it.”.
Greg Palast, BBC Venezuelan correspondant, met Hugo Chavez several times and agrees with his version,expressing himself in an intense post on his blog. He wrote that Venezuela is a powerful enemy of the U.S. in regard to the control of the huge pool of oil of the South (according to CIA this reserve is of 1.36 trillion barrels, a whole lot more than Saudi Arabia.) Palast wrote about Reverand Pat Robertson toughts in 2005 (during the Bush mandate) “If we didn’t kill Chavez, we’d have to do an “Iraq” on his nation. So the Reverend suggests,“We don’t need another $200 billion war….It’s a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.”
As they are unfounded speculations, the new president of Venezuela Maduro ensures that a scientific commission will investigare about the "suspected illness" of the President Hugo Chavez.
Vaya con Dios.
(Sources DailyMail & GregPalast.com )
By Serena Concato
