According to Minister Diosdado Cabello, the opposition leader María Corina Machado is “the boss” of terrorist actions, supported by “extremist sectors that are in the administration of the United States government.” He affirmed that the “cladestine units” that he called to form Machado are part of “Narcobandas”
The Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, reported on Thursday, August 7 about the arrest of 13 people, whom he pointed out of being involved in a “conspiracy” to detonate explosives in Plaza Venezuela last weekend.
According to the official in a news conferencethe opposition leader María Corina Machado is “the boss” of these actions, supported by “extremist sectors that are in the administration of the United States government.”
Cabello said that, in addition to the 13 captured within the country, there is a person identified with the alias of “El Titi”, who is detained in Colombia and would be involved in this alleged attack. There have also been raids in several places in Caracas, in charge of the Sebin, where they have found material.
In the press conference, the minister showed a video where a citizen, who identifies as José Daniel García Ortega, admits to leave a bag with three kilos of explosives in a square near the Sebin Plaza Venezuela.
“The practices are demonstrated to generate violence in association with drug trafficking,” said the minister.
In the audiovisual material, García Ortega said he was contacted by aka “La Negra” and “El Flaco”, who offered him $ 20,000 for getting involved in the attack. He said that this same person gave orders on the materials he had to buy days before and where to leave the explosives.
José Daniel García Ortega, in the photo, was pointed out by Minister Diosdado Cabello as the person who left the explosives in Plaza Venezuela on Sunday, August 3. Mijp Photo
Among the detainees are Tamara Edith Ortega, mother of José Daniel García Ortega and who was aware of the alleged placement of explosives, Yasmín lying around Rondón, Alberto Gutierres García; Arturo Sairias Gómez; Leomar Guerra Sánchez; George Jiménez; Adriana Cedeño Pastrano; Carlos Ubaldo Ascanio Pérez and Lorena García Guerra.
These people, supposedly, would help “El Flaco” to leave the country to Trinidad using the Sucre state route.
The official also pointed to another woman, identified as aka “Carola”, of being part of the financial structure, a subject called “El Catire”, who took Garcia Ortega’s photo after leaving the bag with explosives in Plaza Venezuela, as well as the brothers Humberto and Francisco Javier Finol Labarca, aka “Chichito”, the latter with charges for homicide, extortion and other crimes.
The minister also said that the places where these people and others involved are identified. “Do not start invent, enter too.”
He also showed the videos of two other people linked to the facts and who are under arrest: Yoskar Eduardo Salazar, who said he has been meeting alias “La Negra” for two years and was contacted to take José Daniel Ortega to Plaza Venezuela, and Zurisaday Vásquez, who was sent a video about the explosions.
HAIR: “It’s a criminal alliance”
Minister Diosdado Cabello pointed out at the press conference that these actions are planned by a “criminal alliance where drug traffickers, conspirators and criminal gangs of all nature that made life in Venezuela, and members of some of those bands that have left Venezuela are included.”
He referred to statements made by María Corina Machado On July 28, who called to form “clandestine units” to support a political change. According to the minister, these structures are part of the “narcobandas.”
“Only someone with demential problems calls violence, war and terrorism in the country for destabilizing purposes waiting for the national government to stay with its arms crossed,” he said.
Regarding the arrests of political activists in recent days, he described the claims as “crying” by the opposition. “10 days ago they arrested people, and said ay poor, she is an academic (…) but they are the ones who open the way, allow them to act.”
He affirmed that, to date, there are more than 70 politicians detained and that they would be supposedly involved with criminal gangs, acts of conspiracy and drug trafficking. “They have no votes to survive and survive with drug money.”
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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