‘Did Joe Biden Authorise The Plan?’ Maduro Accuses US of Planning His Assassination

This is not the first time that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused Washington of plotting to assassinate him. In 2019, similar accusations were leveled at former US President Donald Trump.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the CIA and the US military agencies of planning to assassinate him, particularly wondering whether sitting US President Joe Biden has something to do with it.

He suggested that it was the US Southern Command head Craig Faller and director of the CIA William Burns who came to Colombia and Brazil earlier to finish “preparations” for a “violent plan” to assassinate him.

The Venezuelan president did not offer any proof to back his claims. 

In 2019, Maduro accused the former US president, Donald Trump, of urging neighboring Colombia to participate in a plot to kill him and overthrow the Venezuelan government.

At the time, Maduro still outlined he was open for talks with Washington, even though the United States did not recognize him as the Venezuelan president, instead favoring opposition leader Juan Guaido as an ‘interim president’. According to Washington, the 2019 election in Venezuela which saw Maduro re-elected was rigged – something that the latter denies. 

After the 2019 election in Venezuela, the US started to impose sanctions against Caracas. In Biden’s presidential tenure, Maduro has called for relief of the sanctions – a request that the Biden administration has denied, with a State Department spokesperson insisting that the sanctions will remain in place as long as “repression and corrupt practices” continue in the country.

Sourse: sputniknews.com