Assassination plot against El Burro?

From the Associated Press:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gZiCMBJgK9DrLaxFwruzm2SG36FgD8TPF65G1

Apparently, Chavez needs to garner more headlines so he pulls out the tried and true 'Bush wants to kill me' line.

Meanwhile he looks the other way as 33 people per day are murdered in Venezuela. (Article from El Universal here.)