August 29, 2005
Venezuela seeks action against US TV evangelist Robertson

(BBC World) - " Venezuela's president says his government will take legal action against a US TV evangelist who called for US agents to kill him (...)

US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson lent support to Mr Chávez. On a visit to Venezuela, Mr Jackson denounced Mr Robertson's assassination call as immoral and illegal. He called on the US Justice Department to investigate the matter. The US State Department has called Mr Robertson's comments 'inappropriate'.

'I announce that my government is going to take legal action in the United States... to call for the assassination of a head of state is an act of terrorism,' Mr Chávez said in a televised speech.

'If the US government does not take action that it must take, we will go to the United Nations and the Organization of American States to denounce the US government,' Mr Chávez said (...)".