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Venezuelan Armed Forces Repels Group of Conspirators
A small group of conspirators attempting to steal weapons were stopped by the Venezuelean Armed Forces. They say they were promised riches for their actions.
The Ministry of Defense announced Monday that the Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venzuela have repelled an attempted attack on their facilities in Caracas.
In a statement, the Ministry of Defense reported that the situation occurred in the middle of the night of Jan. 21 at approximately at 2:50 local time. "A small group of assailants assigned to the zone commando No. 43 of the Bolivarian National Guard, betraying their oath of allegiance to the Homeland and its institutions," said Captain Gerson Soto Martínez, commander of the Macarao police coordination post.
From there post, the assailants "moved on two military vehicles, then broke into the headquarters of the urban security outpost located in the town of Petare, Sucrem, removing a cache of weapons of war and kidnapping under threat of death, two officers and two national guard members of the aforementioned outpost."
He also detailed that the criminals surrendered and were captured at the headquarters of the Waraira Repano special security unit in Cotiza, in the town of Libertador, also affiliated with the Bolivarian National Guar. " The Ministry of Defense explained that during the detention it was possible to recover the stolen weaponry. In addition, the detainees "are providing information of interest to the intelligence agencies and the military justice system."
The Bolivian Armed Forces categorically rejected these acts, "which are certainly motivated by dark interests of the extreme right and are contrary to the basic rules of military discipline, honor and the traditions of our institution."
The president of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC), Diosdado Cabello, rejected the theft of military installations and said that the intention was to generate violence and anxiety in the population:
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Translation: Once again, our Bolivarian National Armed Forces, Guardian of the Homeland, captures a small group of assailants and traitors to the Homeland who stole weapons to generate violence and anxiety in the population. We will prevail!!!
The group has been caught and immediately confessed their actions saying they were promised "villas and castles" for their actions against the Bovliarian government.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuelan-Armed-Forces-Repels-Group-of-Conspirators-20190121-0008.html
This is where the SEBIN sweeps in and arrests various leaders of the National Assembly under the guise that these "conspirators" were paid for, and this plan hatched by the opposition.
TeleSur English is the official English language mouthpiece of the Chavista "revolution". Its entire payroll comes from Maduro.
Eugene
(61,843 posts)Source: Reuters
Venezuela captures rogue officers after uprising at military outpost
Mayela Armas, Brian Ellsworth
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelas government said on Monday it had suppressed a small military revolt after a group of officers stole weapons and kidnapped several officials, as a video posted online showed a sergeant demanding the removal of President Nicolas Maduro.
The officers attacked a National Guard outpost in the Caracas neighborhood of Cotiza, a kilometer (0.6 mile) from the presidential Miraflores palace, where they met firm resistance, the government said in a statement. Witnesses reported hearing gunshots at about 3 a.m. (0700 GMT).
Protesters later burned trash and a car outside the outpost, where the officers were arrested, in a sign of growing tensions following Maduros inauguration to a second term that governments around the world have called illegitimate.
Though the incident signals discontent within the armed forces, it appeared to involve only low-ranking officers with little capacity to force change in the hyperinflationary economy as many people suffer from shortages of food and medicine.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezuela-captures-rogue-officers-after-uprising-at-military-outpost-idUSKCN1PF129
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)Chavista turf. The Castroists have lost their core support .