Caracas: Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has said that US President George W Bush may be seeking to kill him for calling him "the devil" at the United Nations.
"Some worried friends over there have called me (to say) that because I called him the devil they have condemned me to death," Chavez said on Saturday without elaborating further on his sources.
"But they won't kill me. I have faith in life," he said. "I know how to take care of myself and the Lord will protect me and you all will protect me," he told a cheering crowd in eastern Venezuela where he was visiting a group of state-funded agricultural cooperatives.
Chavez also said that Noam Chomsky may soon visit Venezuela after he endorsed the Massachusetts-based linguist's book, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance," in his UN address on Wednesday.
"He is a man that loves the truth about the empire in his country. He is an anti-imperialist, a leftist. Noam Chomsky -- I think he will come here," Chavez said.
On Wednesday at the UN, Chavez held up Chomsky's book and urged Americans to read it "instead of watching Superman movies," saying it would teach them the truth about the abuses of the US government.
Minutes later, he referred to Bush, who had spoken at the UN the previous day, saying the "devil" had left the odor of sulfur lingering in the chamber.
Continuing in the same vein yesterday, Chavez said that he had had to wash Chomsky's book after placing it on the podium where Bush had stood. "I had to clean it afterward because it smelled like sulfur. I had to sprinkle it with holy water," he said as the audience laughed.
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