Six individuals who were creating content to upload to social media calling for harassment of people close to the government, among others, were arrested by agents of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), according to military sources.
One of the procedures was carried out in the Mañongo urbanization, Naguanagua municipality, Carabobo state, where Richard Jesús Hidalgo Ponce, Jhonatan José Novoa Niño and Emilse Mayerline Castellano Araiz were captured. Agents from the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim) also participated in the arrest of these people.
The detainees had a Volkswagen vehicle and three cell phones seized. Hidalgo, Novoa and Castellanos were dedicated to “creating content and uploading it on social networks, inciting hatred and calling for violence against members of the government,” says the report from the National Anti-Extortion and Kidnapping Command (Conas) 41.
A similar procedure was carried out in the Santa Inés sector, Mara municipality, Zulia state, where Jorge Luis Palmar Paz was captured, who published “hostile and obscene videos on the social network (TikTok), addressing the citizen Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” states the report from Detachment 112 of the GNB to which we had partial access.
And in the Cielo Azul sector, Gran Sabana municipality, Bolívar state, the military arrested Jairo José Abreu Palmare who appears in videos that reflected acts of violence that occurred in the aforementioned place on Monday, July 29, after María Corina Machado denied the results of the presidential elections.
At the Citizen Service Point located in Taguanes (Carabobo), GNB agents arrested Randy Javier Aguilar who was traveling in a Venirauto license plate AF416XM.
This person was also seen in a video spread through WhatsApp groups, where acts of vandalism that occurred on July 29 at the “José Carrillo Moreno” Voting Center, located in Tinaco (Cojedes), were recorded, indicating that electoral fraud was being committed at said establishment and inciting voters to protest, according to a report by Conas 32.
The detainees were handed over to the Public Prosecutor’s Office where proceedings were opened against them for inciting hatred.
