Saca and Chavez in the assassin's crosshairs

What does the center-right president of el Salvador have in common with Hugo “Bush is the devil” Chavez? Both have recently claimed to have been the targets of assassination attempts.

El Salvadoran president Tony Saca claimed several days ago that police foiled an assassination plot against him masterminded by a Cuban-American who supposedly worked as a recruiter for private security jobs in Iraq.

In the meantime, Venezuelan head of state Hugo Chavez alleged that a sniper tried to kill him during a visit last month to western Venezuela.

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Links- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Newsweek (U.S.), Guardian UK, The Latin Americanist (blog)

Tags- El Salvador, Venezuela, Tony Saca, international politics