Originally Posted by O'Sullivan Bere

However, he spent a considerable portion of the time making the US his piñata for pushing his agendas. He consistently framed and blamed the US as the bogeyman and plotter against him and his agendas--and of course the Venezuelan people--including accusing any 'no' voters of being Bushbots, accusing the US of interferences (including a 'discovered CIA memo'), accusing CNN of trying to encourage his assassination due to a coverage glitch where his face was left on the camera but a byline was still covering a murder, and threatened that any interference by the United States in the election would lead him to halt sales of oil to the United States.