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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Chavez: U.S. May Be Behind Leaders’ Cancer
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By Daniel Cancel - Dec 28, 2011 2:49 PM ET
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gives a speach during the swearing in of
the People's Guard to strengthen the fight against crime in Caracas.
Photographer: Leo Ramirez/AFP/Getty Images
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hinted that the U.S. may be behind a “very
strange” bout of cancer affecting several leaders aligned with him in
South America.
Chavez, speaking a day after Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de
Kirchner was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, said the Central Intelligence
Agency was behind chemical experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s and that it
’s possible that in years to come a plot will be uncovered that shows the U
.S. spread cancer as a political weapon against its critics.
“It’s very difficult to explain, even with the law of probabilities, what
has been happening to some of us in Latin America,” Chavez said in a
nationally televised speech to the military. “Would it be so strange that
they’ve invented technology to spread cancer and we won’t know about it
for 50 years?”
Chavez, who was diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer in June and had
a baseball-sized tumor removed in Cuba, has called for a regional summit of
leaders who have battled cancer including Brazilian President Dilma
Rousseff, her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva and Paraguay’s Fernando
Lugo.
“I’m just sharing my thoughts, but it’s very, very, very strange,”
Chavez said. “Evo take care of yourself, Correa, be careful, we just don’t
know,” he said, referring to Evo Morales and Rafael Correa, the leaders of
Bolivia and Ecuador.
Thomas Mittnacht, press director at the U.S. embassy in Caracas, declined to
comment when reached by telephone.
Re-election Bid
Chavez, a former tank commander who has led South America’s largest oil
producer since 1999 and will seek a third consecutive six-year term in
October elections, says that the U.S. was involved in a coup against him in
2002 that briefly ousted the socialist leader before he was reinstated by
the military and supporters.
The 57-year-old leader also accuses the U.S. of plotting an invasion of
Venezuela to capture its oil reserves.
Chavez, who continues to send the U.S. more than 800,000 barrels of oil a
day, said that former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has warned him about
assassination attempts after surviving what he has claimed are hundreds of
plots by the U.S. since he took power in 1959.
“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,’”
the Venezuelan leader said today. “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.” |
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