By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
President Hugo Chavez threatened Saturday to imprison the popular governor of Venezuela's western Zulia state for allegedly plotting to kill him.
Chavez leveled the accusation against Manuel Rosales - one of Venezuela's four opposition governors - just weeks before November 23 gubernatorial and municipal elections.
Rosales, the two-time governor of Zulia, is running for mayor of Maracaibo, Venezuela's second largest city. He ran against Chavez for the presidency in 2006, but Chavez handily defeated him with nearly 63 percent of the vote.
"I have decided to make Manuel Rosales a prisoner," Chavez told a group of business leaders in Maracaibo. "He cannot continue in office... He is one of those who wants to see me dead."
Chavez did not give further details such as who would arrest Rosales or what charges he would face. Rosales' campaign declined to comment immediately on the remarks.
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