Likewise, he continues to accuse Bush Administration figures such as Ambassadors Otto Reich and RogerNoriega of plotting to kill opposition leader Capriles Radonski in order to indict Mr. Maduro and create chaos in Venezuela.
An indication of just how serious a problem all this can become was revealed recently in an op.ed. in the Washington Post by one of the United States' top hemispheric diplomats, former Assistant Secretary of State RogerNoriega.
Also last week, he accused Otto Reich and RogerNoriega -- two fierce critics of Chavez's government who once worked for the U.S. State Department -- of plotting to assassinate Henrique Capriles Radonski, the opposition candidate for Venezuela's presidency.