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[Paul Etxeberri]

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>Chavez Says Venezuela has Plan in Case He's Killed
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>by Pascal Fletcher
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>Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that
>if he is assassinated, his government has a
>contingency plan to prevent his enemies from taking
>control of the world's No. 5 oil exporter.
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>"Some people might want to kill me, but they don't
>dare ... because if they did, they fear what would
>happen the next day," the Venezuelan leader said in a
>television broadcast.
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>Chavez, a firebrand nationalist who often accuses the
>U.S. government and domestic opponents of plotting to
>topple or kill him, and who survived a coup in 2002,
>said his ministers, the armed forces and his
>supporters would know what to do if he were ever
>assassinated.
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>"We have a plan worked out in the event something
>happens to me. Those who are thinking about it should
>know this and that they won't have a good time of it
>if this happens," he said during his weekly "Hello
>President" TV and radio show.
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>Chavez, who was first elected in 1998, did not detail
>the plan. But he has said before that if he were
>killed, Venezuela would become ungovernable and its
>oil shipments to its biggest client, the United
>States, would be halted.
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>U.S. officials dismiss his allegations of a U.S.
>assassination plot as ridiculous. But they often
>criticize him as a left-wing trouble maker allied to
>Cuba's communist president, Fidel Castro, a longtime
>foe of Washington.
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>Chavez, who won a referendum on his rule last August,
>said if his enemies did kill him, he did not think
>they could govern Venezuela. A recent opinion poll put
>his popularity level at 70.5 percent, a five-year
>high.
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>In a message to his supporters on Sunday, he said,
>"You can't let anyone come and seize our country."
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>"The revolution should be intensified," he added in a
>four-hour broadcast in which he criticized the U.S.
>model of capitalism and expressed his preference for
>socialism.
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>Chavez has been spending Venezuela's oil wealth to
>fund free health and education services for the poor
>and distribute subsidies and credits for workers'
>cooperatives he says should be the basis for a new
>kind of socialism.
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>His critics say his statist and interventionist
>economic policies, and systematic persecution of
>political opponents, are turning Venezuela into a
>replica of Castro's Cuba.
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>But Chavez denies this. "The Cuban model can't be
>copied. We don't want to copy it and we won't," he
>said Sunday.
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Paul Etxeberri

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