Venezuela's Chavez cancels UN trip, to visit border

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20690058.htm

CARACAS, Venezuela, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez canceled a trip this week to the United Nations, citing problems with his aircraft, and plans instead to go to the Colombian border where gunmen recently killed five Venezuelan troops, officials said on Monday.

Chavez was scheduled to address the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, meet with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for a poverty forum and hold talks with Wall Street bankers in his first foreign trip since winning an Aug. 15 referendum on his rule.

Information Minister Andres Izarra said technical problems with the presidential aircraft forced pilots to abandon takeoff from Maiquetia International Airport near Caracas on Monday.

The AP orignially said there were "Technical problems" with his airplane.

Yeah, Technically, the *istas don't want him in the US, that's the problem, I bet.

Technical problems indeed. :tinfoilhat:

Sept 21, 2003:

Venezuelan Military Intelligence says overwhelming evidence the CIA planned to bring down Chavez Frias' airplane en route to United Nations in New York

Details behind the sudden decision to cancel President Hugo Chavez Frias' next-week trip to Washington D.C. and New York (to deliver a speech to the United Nations) are being revealed by security services who say they have "overwhelming evidence" of a CIA-backed plan to "bring down" the Chavez Frias' airplane during the scheduled flight to the United States from Caracas. Sources in Venezuela's Military Intelligence Directorate (DIM) have told VHeadline.com that "presented with overwhelming evidence of Washington's planned attack on the Presidential flight, it was decided that the President's personal security was preeminent and that he should not go!"

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=11121

I'm certain it would be a real feather in the cap for this nasty crew to be able to kill a man who is obviously more concerned with his country and its people than with pursuit of power and wealth at everyone else's expense.

He puts them to shame, they hate him. I hope he lives to be a very, very old, accident, poison, bomb, and gunshot free gentleman.

Chavez's "base" is the people.