He could just as well refer to Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, who dropped dead of a heart attack in 1970; Nasser’s confidant, the journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, always maintained that the president had been poisoned by his deputy and successor, Anwar El Sadat.
马杜罗本人援引了以色列毒杀前巴勒斯坦总统阿拉法特的流言。他还提到了埃及1970年死于心脏病的纳赛尔；纳赛尔的密友、记者西凯尔（Mohamed Hassanein Heikal）一直宣称纳赛尔是被其副手兼继任者萨达特毒死的。