Arrest Warrants Issued for Three Venezuelan Opposition Figures, "Terrorist" Activity Condemned befor

Arrest Warrants Issued for Three Venezuelan Opposition Figures, "Terrorist" Activity Condemned before UN
By Z.C. Dutka

San Francisco, June 12th 2014. (Venezuelanalysis.com) - Yesterday, Venezuelan attorney general Luisa Ortega Diaz announced the order for the arrest of Pedro Burelli, Ricardo Koesling and Diego Arria. They are all linked to the alleged plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro which was detailed in a series of emails seized by Venezuelan intelligence services and released by the government during the final week of May.

Attorney General Diaz indicated that Burelli, the former director of the state-owned oil company PDVSA, evaded his court date earlier this week and that all three men are currently resident in the United States. She stated the government’s intention to solicit their capture through the international criminal police organization, Interpol.

Arria, a former right-wing primaries candidate for president and former Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations, Koesling, a lawyer, and Burelli have long been active critics of the elected socialist government formerly led by the late president Hugo Chavez.

In the correspondence publicized by the Venezuelan government, the men refer to longstanding electoral strategies meant to remove President Maduro from office. They also discuss a newer, more extreme approach championed by hard-line opposition leaders Maria Corina Machado and Leopoldo Lopez and embraced by anti-government street barricaders who favor “street action” to force Maduro’s resignation.

In an email sent to Arria, Burelli writes, “We will take the streets as we should, eventually those of the (presidential) palace, and we’ll fence that son of a bitch in. We have people in Miraflores [presidential palace] thanks to our friend Bocaranda (a prominent opposition journalist) who in any case will be useful when the time comes.

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