Maduro: US adviser John Bolton heading plan to assassinate me

Caracas, Dec 12 (EFE).- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday that White House National Security Adviser John Bolton is heading a US plan to assassinate him and put an end to the so-called Bolivarian Revolution under way in the South American country since 1999. Maduro returned to that incident during his press-conference, saying that he had “no doubts that the drones were prepared in Colombia under the supervision of [then Colombian president Juan Manuel] Santos, but on the direct order from the White House.”

Colombia’s Foreign Ministry has said it “categorically rejects” Maduro’s accusations as well as his “unconvincing, disrespectful and slanderous words about an imaginary war that Colombia plans to start” against Venezuela. Maduro said that the alleged conspirators “recently” designated Bolton to head the plot “to fill Venezuela with violence and to seek foreign military intervention, a coup d’etat, to assassinate President Maduro and to impose what they call a transitory government council.”

According to the Venezuelan leader, Bolton has been assigning missions to Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro “for military provocations in southern Venezuela, on the border” shared by the two nations.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro accuses United States National Security Advisor John R. Bolton of personally leading a plot to assassinate him, declining to provide evidence.