US televangelist calls for assassination of Venezuelan president

American televangelist Pat Robertson has called for the assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez on his religious television show, calling him a “terrific danger” to the US.

Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a former presidential candidate, said on his TV show The 700 Club that it was America’s duty to stop Chavez from making Venezuela a “launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism”.