Chavez Insists Bolivar Murdered Despite Probe

[naaman fletcher]

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that he’s still convinced South American liberator Simon Bolivar was murdered in 1830 even though an investigation he commissioned has come up with no evidence of foul play.

“They killed Simon Bolivar,” Chavez said in a telephone call broadcast by state television. “They murdered him and, even though I don’t have proof, the circumstances in which he died point to that.”

Earlier, Vice President Elias Jaua read out a forensic report that found there was no evidence Bolivar had been assassinated, nor that his death was caused by tuberculosis as some history books say.

“The hypothesis many historians had about Bolivar’s death by poisoning was ruled out,” Jaua said on state television. “The possibility that he may have consumed medicines that poisoned him unintentionally remains open.”





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