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A statement from the Twitter account of the Strategic Defense Area of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) announced that one more person was detained in the Carayaca region of the province of La Guaira in northern Venezuela, believed to have come to try a coup d’etat in the country.
Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López congratulated the armed forces and the people of the region on the arrest of this person.
The number of people the Venezuelan government called “mercenaries” and accused of planning a coup increased to 26.
“WE DON’T NEED FOREIGN COIN SOLDIERS” OF GUAIDO
Opposition legislator Juan Guaidó, who declared himself provisional head of state in Venezuela, reiterated that it has nothing to do with the planned coup attempt in the country.
Claiming that the coup attempt was planned by the government, Guaidó said: “We will not need foreign mercenaries to liberate Venezuela because we have enough international support, enough soldiers and police to participate in this case inside and outside the country.”
What happened?
On May 3 in Venezuela, the security forces launched an operation against those trying to enter the country by sea.
President Nicolás Maduro argued that the people captured were supported by the US governments. USA And Colombia, which was affiliated with Guaido, and in its press conference, showed the agreement signed by the CEO of the American security company Silvercorp, Jordan Goudreau, accused of organizing the operation plan. .
The two former US soldiers among those captured also showed the same document during interrogation, saying that they came to train some troops in Colombia and to support the attempted coup in Venezuela.
Guaidó’s adviser, Juan José Rendón, stated that they had signed the document signed by Goudreau, but this was a preliminary agreement.
Antonio Sequea, a former member of the Bolivarian National Guard Corps who participated in the military envoy led by Guaidó in Venezuela in January 2018 in operations where a large number of military equipment and heavy weapons were seized, was also captured.
Maduro had said that his coup plans against his country began in March with former Major General Cliver Alcalá, who announced that he had been sending weapons to carry out armed actions from Colombia to Venezuela.
Defending that the United States and Colombia support the armed actions that were desired to be carried out in his country, the former major general Alcalá, who he described as the beginning of the last attack attempts, announced that he had sent weapons to the country in accordance with Guaido to carry out armed actions on a radio program in Colombia in late March.
