Venezuelan Foreign Minister denies naming foreign security agencies in assassination plot

www.vheadline.com Posted: Monday, March 17, 2003 By: Patrick J. O'Donoghue

Venezuelan Foreign Minister (MRE) Roy Chaderton Matos has confirmed that he has passed a list of coup plotters’ names to ministers of friendly countries assembled in Bogota (Colombia) for a regional security meeting.

Chaderton Matos, however, denies as "absolutely false" a report circulating in the US State Department that he had listed foreign security agencies (a.k.a. the CIA) as parties to a plot to assassinate President Hugo Chavez Frias.

“Apart from Ministers of friendly nations, human rights groups and international bodies also received the document which highlighted the names of plot suspects.”

Chaderton Matos says he's against any extremes and condemns domestic “silver bullet” opposition theorists that frequently appear in print & broadcast media to push their extreme views.