National Assembly creates ad hoc committee to investigate claims of plot

The president of the National Assembly, Cilia Flores, accused the media (Handout photo)

Politics The delegated commission of the Venezuelan National Assembly appointed an "ad hoc committee to investigate the plot and organization of a coup d'état."

There was also a plan to assassinate President Hugo Chávez, said the deputies.

The aforementioned committee will have the purpose of investigating the complaints made by Mario Silva a leader of the Venezuelan official party United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), on Wednesday night during the broadcast of the TV show La Hojilla. Silva aired a video where former military officers Wilfredo Barroso Herrera, Carlos Alberto Millán Millán and Eduardo Báez Torrealba raised the possibility of assassinating President Chávez.

Cilia Flores accused Alberto Federico Ravell, the general director of the Venezuelan TV news channel Globovisión; Miguel Henrique Otero, the editor and publisher of the newspaper El Nacional, and the "2D Movement", headed by Otero, of being involved in the alleged plot to assassinate the Venezuelan head of state.

Pedro Pablo Penaloza
EL UNIVERSAL

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