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Plot afoot to annul Venezuela vote: Chavez
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CARACAS
Petroleumworld.com 03 28 06President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that opposition politicians with US backing plan to annul Venezuela's presidential vote in December, when he will seek re-election.
"They will try to create the false idea that one of their candidates will beat Chavez," he alleged on his weekly call-in talk show, "Hello, Mr. President."
"This year they will try to take us down that path."
Chavez said the United States seeks a repeat of its approach to Belarus, in which Washington condemned elections held there as unfair and illegitimate.
"The United States has for some while attacked that government and now Washington and the European Union say that they do not recognize those elections," he said.
The leftist-populist has had a testy relationship with US President George W. Bush, whose government, he claims, participated in an aborted 2002 coup that removed him from power for less than two days. He also accuses the Bush administration of having plans to invade and take over Venezuela's oil fields. Venezuela is one of the largest oil suppliers for the US market.
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