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In reply to the discussion: Venezuela to probe Chavez cancer poisoning accusation [View all]Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)It is either ignorant, naive, or deliberately misleading to imply that this could never happen or that such things have never happened to world leaders.
Particularly in the region of Latin America where, more often than not in the last many decades, western powers like the US and Europe have been actively involved in major coups, assassinations, supporting violent military dictators, and so forth.
The cancer-poison thing aside, it is reasonable to assume that there are operations in the region (from financial support to who-knows-what) in order to keep Chavez' party out of power *despite the wishes of the majority of Venezuelans*.
The history of meddling by western powers in the region leans toward the violent and the anti-democratic. To pretend otherwise is foolish.