Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has abandoned his plan to participate in the United Nations General Assembly in New York due to threats to his life.
Maduro, who had just returned from a visit to China, said on Wednesday that on a layover in the Canadian city of Vancouver he obtained intelligence on what he described as "two highly serious provocations." The data impelled him to scrap his UN trip.
Maduro further said one of the alleged provocations had been planned against his "physical integrity," adding that the other one could have involved violence in New York .... http://www.sott.net
