By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
President Hugo Chavez said his government has uncovered a plot to overthrow him and detained a group of alleged conspirators.
Chavez said Thursday that "various" suspects were detained, and accused them of trying to assassinate him with tacit backing from his political opponents and the United States.
The alleged conspirators were recorded while discussing plans to assasinate him and topple the government, Chavez said. He played some of the purported phone conversations during a televised speech.
"They're the same coup-plotters," said Chavez, who survived a failed 2002 coup. Without offering evidence, he said the suspected conspirators had support from "the political opposition ... the US empire."
US officials have repeatedly denied Chavez's accusations that Washington has backed attempts to overthrow him.
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