Two Venezuelan former women who participated in the so -called “Operation Gideon” accused the former Colombian president Iván Duque of having participated in the plan executed in 2020 aimed at overthrowing and murdering the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro.
The former Bolivarian National Guard, Lieutenant Rayder Russo and the largest Juvenal Sequea said that the Colombian government, under Duke’s mandate at that time, had detailed knowledge of the plan to destabilize Maduro, where the ultra -right -wing Juan Guaidó and Leopoldo López participated
The Major Sequea said that after having held a meeting with Duke, actions were coordinated with the National Directorate of Colombian Intelligence (DNI) and communication with the Army in La Guajira was established. “All the actions we were doing in Riohacha were known by the Colombian government. The police passed through the places and we talked to them, ”he explained during statements before the Justice of Colombia in the trial held last week.
Both former officials of the Bolivarian National Guard worked in complicity with Yacsy Álvarez, captured in Barranquilla with accusations of being the logistics coordinator of the group in which the former American ex -military Jordan Goudreau was also, who escaped Colombia in 2020, and who also assured In an interview for W Radio on his hiring by Duke and politicians of the extreme Venezuelan right to head the Gideon operation.
Russo said that the Colombian military collaborated with the Plan, until the Russian government denounced Colombia’s collaboration in the coup attempt.
The participation of the Guaidó-López duo
Russo said that Juan Guaidó was in charge of appointing Cliver Alcalá Laces, the largest retired general, to coordinate strategic meetings in Bogotá with military deserters, Colombian intelligence officials and Venezuelan opponents.
According to Lieutenant Rayder Russo, in meetings held in Bogotá, Clíver Alcalá structured a “task force” to infiltrate Venezuela, recruiting more than 130 ex -military.
Clíver Alcalá also assumed the responsibility of managing resources and the connection with Jordan Goudreau, Exboina Verde, who was responsible for supplying armament for the kidnapping of President Maduro.
Russo said that figures such as Lester Toledo and Jorge Betancourt operated on Colombian land and facilitated meetings with mercenaries, managed logistics and tried to internationalize the conflict and assured that they maintained dialogue with the Colombian ID and promoted narratives about a “humanitarian aid” as a facade to justify The incursion.
Operation Gideon failed in May 2020 when the Bolivarian armed force dismantled the group in La Guajira. Russo and Sequea, were arrested in Bogotá, and accepted their responsibility after an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office: six years in prison in exchange for Jacsy Álvarez, group logistics coordinator. They currently meet a sentence under a home regime by jail, according to Colombian media data.
For his part, Jordan Goudreau, who in recent weeks has given statements to the Colombian media, said that Operation Gideon “began in an alliance between Leopoldo López and Juan Guaidó with an American company Global Governments, Germán Chica and Néstor Sainz, which, which They work with the government. I met with a Leopoldo strategist, which is called Lester Toledo. The contract had a commercial interest, they called me because they recommended me, I went to that meeting to bring that solution, ”he told the W Radio and assured the name of Iván Duque was mentioned at the big meeting we had with former generals of Venezuela, with the Representatives of Leopoldo and those first trips that I made to Colombia, where Alcalá was also Clíver, where they discussed how Colombia was going to be involved in this operation. ”
Duke and Uribe: Enemies of Venezuela
The National Assembly approved on January 21 an agreement to declare “public and despicable enemies” to the former presidents of Colombia Álvaro Uribe and Iván Duque, who recently requested an “international intervention” in the country. The president of the AN, Jorge Rodríguez, described as “paramilitary, terrorist, drug trafficker, fascist, murderer, criminal, rat” the ex -president Uribe, while saying that he lacks the courage that Venezuelans have.
The Agreement project declares them enemies “for being part of a systematic plan to attempt against sovereignty, peace and self -determination of the Venezuelan people, in their desperate attempt to intervene militarily the Bolivarian homeland.”
