Venezuela
Evidence of U.S.-Led Terrorist Plots
Mobilization for Peace rally in Caracas, March 24, 2019.
The latest evidence of U.S.-led terrorist plots in
Venezuela came to light when evidence was found that foreign
mercenaries disguised as Venezuelan military personnel were funded
by assets seized from Venezuela as part of the U.S. economic war.
TeleSUR reports that the government of Nicolás Maduro
released telephone conversations and other evidence between
leaders of the opposition planning violence against the
country.
 Earlier in the week,
Roberto Marrero, the so-called
chief-of-staff of the self-proclaimed president Juan
Guaidó who Canada supports, was arrested along with
Guaidó's bodyguard. Minister of Interior Relations and
Justice Nestor Reverol, said that the arrest uncovered new
evidence about the terror campaign planned by the U.S. and the
Venezuelan Opposition. Misión Verdad reports on a press
conference by Jorge Rodríguez, Minister of Communication
and Information, who described how the arrest of Marrero led to
the discovery of widespread terrorist plans. The new evidence
points to a plot funded by assets seized by the United States
from Venezuela and channelled into bank accounts through
Colombia.
Reporting on the Rodríguez press conference,
Misión Verdad describes how eight to 10 teams of assassins
were being brought to Venezuela from Nicaragua, Honduras,
Guatemala and El Salvador and being trained in Colombia to carry
out terrorist acts in Venezuela. They planned selective
assassinations of high-profile figures of the Venezuelan state
and attacks on the country's public services. Half these groups
had entered the country, while others were blocked by the
shutdown of the borders over the phony attempt to deliver
humanitarian aid.
The objectives of the terrorist plot were shown in a
slide
show by Jorge Rodríguez. Misión Verdad reports the slide
described how Operación Libertad (or Operation Freedom)
planned:
- selective killings of government officials;
- new sabotage to the Caracas Metro, the Cable Car and
the
electric service;
- false-positive operations or false flags by people
disguised as military deserters; and
- a general strike, an assault on the presidential
Miraflores
palace and terrorist actions such as the assassination of
President Maduro.
The mercenary teams planned to conduct their terrorist
acts
disguised as deserters from the Bolivarian National Armed Forces to
portray them as "military deserters." They sought to show a
non-existent conflict between the Venezuelan military and the
legitimately elected government.
Misión Verdad also reports that among the
material
seized from Marrero were cell phones that allowed investigators
access to conversations, which showed $500,000 and $700,000 being
spent per day to pay these assassins and to bribe members of the
military to desert and join them. The money was deposited by NGOs
created in January and February in accounts of Banesco and Bank
of America by the Colombian government of Iván Duque after
a request from Juan Guaidó. The communications indicate
the funds came from money seized from Venezuelan companies by the
United States. The money stolen from Venezuela that would be used
to finance this operation would amount to $1 billion.
To add further to the hypocrisy of the United States,
the
Department of the Treasury sanctioned the Economic and Social
Development Bank of Venezuela when Guaidó's "humanitarian
aid" was seized on suspicion of terrorism.
Misión Verdad reports Guaidó himself and
right-wing leader, Leopoldo López, who is under house
arrest for previous violence, were implicated.
"On Marrero's phone, conversations were also found in a
group
called 'the General Staff,' made up of members of the
Voluntad Popular Party. Among them, Leopoldo López is
identified, in charge of his leadership; Freddy Guevara, in
charge of advising on talking points for Guaidó; Marrero,
the deputies Freddy Superlano and Sergio Vergara, and Juan
Guaidó himself."
In these conversations, Guaidó described
"Operation
Freedom" which is consistent with these plans. Freddy Guevara
described how the operation is moving "from a strategy of siege
to one of assault" with selective assassinations and attacks
against public services. This is all consistent with
Guaidó's comments at a rally on March 22 in El Tigre,
Anzoátegui state, where he said: "Venezuelans do not beg
for our rights, so soon we are going together to Miraflores to
rescue the office of all Venezuelans," and told his followers "we
must organize because the dictator will not go out gently."
Caracas, March 23, 2019.
In
a
speech
at
the
Mobilization
for Peace rally outside of the Miraflores
Palace on March 23, President Maduro described how the country is
facing "the strongest imperialist aggressions that the Republic has
ever survived in 200 years." Maduro said the people continue to be "the
greatest guarantee of peace, democracy, and sovereignty of the
Fatherland" against the attacks perpetrated by the Venezuelan
right-wing and the U.S. Regarding the plans of the terrorist cell
described in the article, he assured the people: "We are going to
capture them and hand them over to justice."
Those
opposed
to
U.S.
intervention
in
Venezuela will be holding a mass
protest at the White House on March 30 to kick off a week of action
against NATO and the war against Venezuela.
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number 11 - March 30, 2019
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Venezuela: Evidence of U.S.-Led Terrorist Plots
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