CARACAS.- He Nicolas Maduro regime scale in its “conspiracy theories” and requests the government of Gustavo Petro to cooperate in investigating an alleged assassination plan of the Venezuelan democratic oppositionreported by Colombian paramilitaries through social media, in the midst of the electoral campaign ahead of the presidential elections on July 28.
Tarek William Saab, the Chavista attorney general, announced the opening of a criminal investigation into the statements of the Colombian paramilitary group Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra Nevada (ACSN), known as “The Pachencas”who claim to have been contacted by the “extreme right” Venezuelan to “destabilize” the regime.
The armed group, which operates around the city of Santa Marta, in northern Colombia, and whose influence extends to the border with Venezuela in the department of La Guajira, according to Insight Crimewould have been contacted to attack the electrical system, which is in decline due to lack of maintenance and investment, according to experts.
According to the group’s complaints, they would have also asked him to act against the Chavista ruler in case he was elected in the upcoming electoral process, in which the most reliable polls put him 30 points below the opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, with the aim of generating “chaos in the streets”.
“We wish to state that our organization does not get involved in the internal affairs of other countries, that our organization is responsible for and has the purpose of maintaining order in the Sierra Nevada,” said the organization on July 5, which is dedicated to drug trafficking, the sale of land through extortion and the collection of monthly fees, called “vaccines” from merchants on the Colombian border.
Regime opens investigation
Maduro, who this year has denounced around half a dozen cases of conspiracy that have justified the arrests of more than 40 people, 10 of them close to the opposition leader Maria Corina Machadoechoed the ACSN video and ordered the Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the case.
In response to his request, Saab appointed the 83rd National Prosecutor’s Office, with jurisdiction over organized crime, to “investigate and sanction new threats” against Maduro and requested the Colombian Attorney General’s Office to participate in this investigation and permission for Venezuelan officials to interview the “witnesses to the event”the paramilitary group that last weekend asked Petro to build a bridge to “have a direct dialogue” with Chavismo.
According to a Colombian informant consulted by the regime, “the Venezuelan extreme right” has had contacts with the paramilitaries for two months, planning destabilizing acts without any economic agreement being reached.
“There are about three weeks left for this ongoing process to be completed and already They are talking about ignoring results and began to carry out acts of violence. It is terrible. They showed maps, pointing out the electrical infrastructure they wanted to attack and photos of the Miraflores Palace,” said Saab.
False positive
Former Venezuelan prosecutor Zair Mundaray described the case as a “false positive of the Venezuelan regime”which represent the “the tantrums of those who know they have been defeated in the electoral arena”.
In his opinion, the alleged paramilitaries, who appear in the videos wearing hoods, could be members of the Venezuelan State security agencies. He also mentioned that they use terms such as “ultra-right” or “extreme right”, “just as the Venezuelan regime does with the opposition, or the Colombian guerrilla groups with the traditional parties.”
He also stressed that they started a supposed investigation “based on an anonymous tip,” going against the Constitution and procedural rules.Tarek hints that they are going to contact the criminals to point the finger at someone without them being arrested and prosecuted for the crimes shown in the video, another legal nonsense,” he said.
Justify violence
For his part, investigative journalist Casto Ocando said that the Chavista leadership would be “desperately” seeking an alleged opposition conspiracy to “justify violence, which is the only natural scenario for dictatorship”.
According to the journalist, this was the conclusion reached by the Venezuelan regime during a meeting held this weekend at the Miraflores Palace, in which Maduro, his wife, deputy Cilia Flores, the vice president, Delcy Rodríguez and his brother, the president of the Chavista Parliament, Jorge Rodríguez, participated.
“Words like ‘magnicide’, ‘far-right’ and ‘paramilitaries’ resonated, justify judicial persecution, following the Cuban manual Tarea Escudo“, he stressed
Source: With information from social networks / Public Ministry