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VENEZUELAN government minister Ernesto Villegas condemned right-wing leaflets urging the killing of government supporters on Saturday.
Leaflets printed by the Venezuelan United Active Youth (Javu) opposition group proclaimed: “Venezuela needs you! Kill a Chavista!” were found in a district of the capital Caracas.
On Twitter, Minister for the Revolutionary Transformation of Greater Caracas Mr Villagas compared the propaganda to Plan Condor — the CIA-organised campaign of terror against leftwingers across Latin America from 1968 to 1989.
Mr Villegas’ father, communist and CUTV union president Cruz Villegas, was forced to flee to the Amazon rainforest under the regime of General Marco Perez in the 1950s.
Javu issued a statement on its website yesterday claiming the leaflets were fabricated by the “regime” of President Nicolas Maduro.
Meanwhile two human rights groups said they would denounce the opposition at the UN human rights council in Geneva on Friday for fraud in their bid to recall Mr Maduro, including presenting signatures of dead people, children and prisoners on the recall petition.
