The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Madurosaid this Monday that last year he was the target of assassination attempts, a frequent complaint by the president, always with the same people responsible: USAthe opposition to his government and Colombian drug traffickers.
“In the month of May, in the month of August, in the month of November and December, we dismantled four conspiracies with foreign components, planned from Miami and from Colombia“Maduro said in a speech that lasted more than five hours in Parliament.
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“His last attempt (…) his last objective was to assault a military unit” on the border with Colombia, he added.
The president did not make direct statements, but assured that all “civil and military, national and foreign“They confessed and are detained, without detailing how many.
Among those captured there are “mercenaries and military” of PeruColombia, USA and others from his country, he maintained.
“They had the objective of assassinating me (…), assassinating important political and military leaders of Venezuela and creating chaos and commotion in the country“he added after blaming the United States intelligence service, INCto the drug trafficking Colombian and the “far right”, as he refers to the opposition.
Maduro, who must seek re-election this year, frequently denounces plans to overthrow and assassinate him.
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The clearest was in 2018, when two drones exploded near a platform where the president was presiding over an event with the military. Some 17 people were prosecuted for this incident.
Many of the so-calledpolitical prisoners” from Venezuela are accused of treason and conspiracy. Americans have also been condemned, as Luke Alexander Denman and Airan Berryto 20 years for a failed armed incursion in Venezuela in 2020.
They were released last December along with eight other nationals in an exchange with Washington which included twenty Venezuelan prisoners in exchange for the businessman Alex Saabaccused of being Maduro’s front man and was responding to a money laundering case Florida.