On 03-19-13, BOB KLAHN said to TIM RICHARDSON:   
      
      
   TR> Earls echo was `slow', `not dead'. It was still listed. You   
   TR> tried to hijack it. You claimed you `revived' it! You don't   
   TR> like the same thing you dish out coming back at you, do you?   
      
      
   BK>It wa   
      
      
   I see a set-up coming. The opposition candidate gets assassinated, the US's   
   CIA gets blamed for the murder....naturally the present leader (the guy   
   handpicked by Chavez to succeed him), has to crack down to `save the country'   
   ...which means no election, only a government decree naming him el presidente:   
      
      
      
   Anyone who doesn't see a set-up coming here....flick your monitor on and off:   
      
      
   Venezuela's Maduro urges Obama to halt plot against rival   
      
      
   Venezuela says U.S. "far-right" wants to kill Capriles   
      
      
   By Daniel Wallis   
      
      
   CARACAS, March 17 (Reuters) - Venezuela's acting president urged U.S. leader   
   Barack Obama to stop what he called a plot by the Pentagon and the Central   
   Intelligence Agency to kill his opposition rival and trigger a coup before an   
   April 14 election.   
      
      
      
   Nicolas Maduro said the plan was to blame his opponent's murder on the OPEC   
   nation's government and to "fill Venezuelans with hate" as they prepare to go   
   to vote following the death of socialist leader Hugo Chavez.   
      
      
   Maduro first mentioned a plot against his rival, Henrique Capriles, last week,   
   blaming it on former Bush administration officials Roger Noriega and Otto   
   Reich.   
      
      
   Both rejected the allegations as untrue, outrageous and defamatory.   
   "I call on President Obama - Roger Noriega, Otto Reich, officials at the   
   Pentagon and at the CIA are behind a plan to assassinate the right-wing   
   presidential candidate to create chaos," Maduro said in a TV interview   
   broadcast on Sunday.   
      
      
   Maduro, who is Chavez's preferred successor, said the purpose of the plot was   
   to set off a coup and that his information came from "a very good source."   
      
      
   During his 14 years in power, the charismatic but divisive Chavez, who died   
   March 5 after a two-year battle with cancer, often denounced U.S. plots   
   against him and his "revolution." Critics dismissed those claims as a   
   smokescreen to keep voters focused on a sense of "imperialist" threat.   
      
      
   In kicking off the opposition's campaign in the provinces on Saturday,   
   Capriles said Maduro would be to blame if anything happened to him.   
   MADURO TO JOIN TWITTER Capriles, a 40-year-old centrist state governor who   
   cites Brazil as his economic model for Venezuela, accuses Maduro of using his   
   boss's death as a mawkish campaign tool ahead of the April 14 vote.   
      
      
   Maduro, 50, a former bus driver who is trumpeting his working-class roots like   
   Chavez, has a lead over Capriles of more than 10 percentage points, according   
   to two recent opinion polls. Both were conducted before Chavez's death.   
   Maduro has sought to emulate the late president's common touch and emotional   
   bond with voters but has struggled - beyond copying Chavez's bombastic   
   rhetoric against foes at home and abroad.   
      
      
   In Sunday's interview, recorded at the military museum where Chavez's body was   
   carried in a somber funeral procession on Friday after 10 days of mourning,   
   Maduro said he had cried more when Chavez died than when his own parents   
   passed away.   
      
      
   Later on Sunday, his campaign team plans to launch Maduro's official Twitter   
   account in another move reminiscent of Chavez. Chavez's @chavezcandanga   
   account had drawn more than 4 million followers before his death - making it   
   the second most-followed presidential account after Obama's.   
      
      
   The election campaign began in a particularly nasty atmosphere, with both   
   sides accusing each other of dirty tricks, and Capriles and Maduro landing   
   very personalized blows.   
      
      
   At stake in the election is not only the future of Chavez's leftist revolution   
   but also the continuation of Venezuelan oil subsidies and other aid crucial to   
   the economies of leftist allies around Latin America, from Cuba to Bolivia.   
      
      
   Venezuela boasts the world's largest oil reserves. (Additional reporting by   
   Deisy Buitrago; Editing by Bill Trott)   
      
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