Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stated that there was yet another plot to assassinate him.

Maduro alleged that this murder was to be carried out during his recent trip to Ecuador, and within the framework of the Union of South American Nations (USAN) summit.  

“At the USAN summit, we received information on the name, surname, and bank accounts of that man, and how much they had paid the hired killer by sending him from Central America to kill me in Ecuador,” RIA Novosti news agency of Russia cited the Venezuela president as saying.

As per Maduro, now this hired assassin is being searched in Venezuela, too.

This is not the first assassination attempt against Maduro about which the Venezuelan authorities had informed. In late May, information was received that the country’s opposition, backed by the US, was plotting to have the Venezuelan president killed.