CARACAS- Venezuela's state security agencies have detected plans of a destabilization process in the country to be set in motion if opposition presidential candidate Manuel Rosales remains without a prayer to win the December 3 elections.

The revelation came in a commentary in the Vea newspaper, and also assures that extra measures have been taken to protect the life of President Hugo Chavez.

"A new element has been added: a possible connection with the sophisticated Israeli secret service, Mossad, capable of doing absolutely anything," assured the journalist.

Chavez warned Saturday that US President George W. Bush had ordered his assassination after the Venezuelan president's speech at the UN General Assembly last Wednesday. In his address, Chavez dubbed Bush as the "devil."

Chavez also noted that there is an undermining process in progress through the manipulation of opinion polls on the presidential elections.

There is an interest in disclosing false numbers pointing to a supposed advance by opposition candidate Manuel Rosales, said Chavez who described Rosales as the "candidate of the [US] empire."

FOREIGN MINISTER URGES THE UN TO HOLD INQUIRY ON HIS DETENTION

UNITED NATIONS.- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro, informed UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, about his 90-minute detention on Saturday at JFK International Airport, reported Prensa Latina news agency.

Maduro returned to his country's mission in Manhattan after being detained at the airport terminal and even threatened with a beating by the police, according to his statements at an improvised press conference.

"We were the target of an illegal detention," said the Venezuelan foreign minister, who explained that he was asked to be submitted to a body search.

Maduro said that his ticket and passport were retained, and although they were finally returned to him, it was already too late for him to reach the plane that would take him back to Caracas.