Reply #1: This article is much less slanted and has some context:

[EFerrari]

Chavez says security concerns will keep him from summit
Posted: 26 October 2008 0729 hrs


CARACAS : Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Saturday announced he will not attend an upcoming summit in El Salvador due to security problems, while also charging that an opposition governor was trying to kill him.

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But "I have just called off my trip to El Salvador to the Ibero-American Summit because my life is not guaranteed safe," Chavez told businessmen at an event in Maracaibo, saying he made the call after "a series of information" of concern.

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"He is trying to kill me," Chavez said on national television. "I am not going to kill him. I don't kill anyone, but I am head of state.... I am determined to put Manuel Rosales behind bars," Chavez added to roaring applause.

The president urged prosecutors to act amid allegations that "11 estates have his name on them, luxurious homes, capital movements, legal fronts, mafias, drug trafficking, arms arsenals.




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