Oh yeah, he’s going to fit in perfectly.

Via WaPo:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had been fighting cancer for two years when he died this afternoon at age 58, but some Venezuelans — including new President Nicolas Maduro — are convinced foul play is to blame.

Maduro promised on state television that a “scientific commission” would look into Chavez’s death and the possibility that his “historical enemies” had somehow induced his disease, reported El Diario. On social media and in several news outs, that “historical enemy” was interpreted as the United States.

“There have been historical cases, too many historical cases” of such clandestine assassinations, Maduro said, invoking the conspiracy theories around the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Chavez made similar allegations against the U.S. government in 2005.

“If they kill me, the name of the person responsible is George Bush,” he said.

The State Department has forcefully disavowed the accusations against the U.S. in general, and against two officials who were expelled from Venezuela for espionage earlier this afternoon.