The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, held a press conference on Thursday to update on investigations of the recent violent criminal acts perpetrated by the extreme far-right, amid official election results pointing to President Nicolas Maduro as winner. teleSUR
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00:00At this moment, we go live to Venezuela where the prosecutor of the nation is giving statements.
00:15We are looking at images, live images from the Attorney General's Office of the Republic.
00:26He is giving statements at this moment.
00:34This is, we are watching Tarek William Saab.
00:53This is organized crime and we know what happens, this group of paramilitary criminals, they
01:06are alias Train del Llano and in Cuarico, they have been threatened by hoods, with hoods
01:19and they attacked, besieged, and they were burning alive people from school and everything
01:28has been cleared.
01:31Unfortunately, international outlets have been able to observe, to watch that are not
01:39social movements who are protesting in quotation marks and burning facilities and even as yesterday,
01:50there are over 80 police officers and military injured by these terrorist groups, by these
02:00criminal groups.
02:02My solidarity, my sympathy with the families, with victims, belonging to the security forces
02:11that have been attacked criminally by these thugs and they have, whose brains have been
02:22washed.
02:23As we have seen before for years, I have denounced it several times.
02:30It is one of the facets of hybrid war and I am going to explain how from social media
02:40they have achieved so, because they have already planned it, to attack the minds of many Venezuelans
02:48to execute these plans that we have been denouncing.
02:53So the first thing I want to denounce as Attorney General of the Republic and at the same time,
02:59I want to congratulate the people of Venezuela, their workers, housewives who haven't been
03:08falling in this kind of call.
03:10These are people that are on drugs, that are drug addicts and you see their body languages
03:22as they are psychopaths.
03:27People haven't protested in a peaceful way in this country.
03:33Those peaceful protesters use stance and give a speech, a proposal, but this, what we are
03:43seeing today and I am going to show you and that I showed you yesterday and the day before
03:49yesterday, it forms part of this escalation of violence in which transnationals from today,
04:01from January 1st, they were already saying that they were chanting fraud.
04:09And so a question, what did you submit?
04:14What did you accept the rules of the game?
04:18What did you accept these international observers?
04:21I think it was very positive and attached to the constitution and to the guarantors
04:28that provides the constitution and the justice system that the citizen president of Venezuela,
04:36Nicolás Maduro, have appealed, have shown an appeal of protection to the electoral chamber
04:47and there they have the evidence and there is a national prosecutor there which is going
04:57to accompany the interrogations, the investigation underway.
05:04I want to announce and inform that several, let's say, candidates who were at the electoral
05:13race, they have presented with their lawyers, well, to form part of this investigation,
05:24of this positive and correct investigation because if you don't have nothing to lose,
05:31you don't have, you are not afraid.
05:36And so this, we know, we have already denounced, I said this phrase, how to re-elect the system
05:49of transmission of the ads.
05:52They achieved, but the idea was an absolute blackout that stopped the electoral system
06:04from working and they have been doing it, they have been doing to try to install a parallel
06:16electoral council and here we have a single national electoral council and this is a private
06:27organization who are setting up all this forgery along with the U.S. allies and they
06:37are just forging ads and they even don't correspond to the accurate figures.
06:48For instance, if there are 100 ballots, they just put that there are 500 ballots.
06:56So it is important to see how the criminals, because they want to attack symbols that related
07:12to the identity of Venezuelans.
07:14They tried to behead the statue of Jose Gregorio Hernandez and they just grabbed the plate
07:25and they wanted to behead the face of Jose Gregorio Hernandez and at that time he was
07:33arrested.
07:34And let's see a video of what happened in Guayra.
07:39The criminals who destroyed the statue of Commander Hugo Chavez and then they celebrated
07:49and then they were crying when they were arrested.
07:53Let's see it.
07:54Well, that statue was mine.
07:57Look, I think what is left is on the square of Deportivo and another one too.
08:23There you see the intellectual author who boosted this violent action that you are seeing
08:33on the screen of the beheading of the statue that has nothing to do with the peaceful protest
08:43and that has nothing to do with an electoral event, but it takes part of all that instigation
08:53of hate, that poisoning that they have searched for most of the Venezuelan people have and
09:03it was the most vulnerable people were affected by that, many young people with criminal records.
09:14Well, let's see before and after of who besieged the mayorship of a place.
10:07That's the good thing about before and after.
10:10There's always a day after.
10:12What has to do the headquarters of an institution with the unleashed complaint or protest of
10:23an electoral issue?
10:24This is terrorism.
10:26These people cannot be classified as vandalics.
10:33They are committing terrorist crimes because inside that facility, there were people working.
10:42When you launch molotov bombs on a place with people inside, you want to burn them alive.
10:55So these are not peaceful protests, but acts of terrorism.
11:00Let's see the number three.
11:03This has fentanyl and all kinds of drugs mixed and we have silenced this subject, but he
11:18threatens Maduro's life and lawmaker Diosdado Cabello's life.
11:26Let's see.
11:27Diosdado Cabello, you are a million.
11:37Remember my face, come and look at me, come and look for me.
11:45My name is Alexander Suarez and I am in prison because I am a creator of a TikTok video in
11:58which I insulted the president of Republic, Nicolás Maduro, and the lawmaker Diosdado
12:04Cabello.
12:05I am here assuming and asking for pardon because I get influenced by Maria Corina Machado and
12:15Mundo, and I call the youngsters not to be manipulated as me.
12:23Well, we feel pity, compassion, sympathy for these kinds of youngsters who are losing their
12:32future because they made them lose their mind, literally.
12:40What for, I ask?
12:42What do they have achieved?
12:46You can come out to the streets of Caracas and all of Venezuela and you will find tranquility,
12:53absolute calm, and the cold, tiny commands, we will see what they were.
13:00I want to recall when we investigate and prosecute a subject, a leader of a criminal group, Brand
13:13Ulloa, he explained in a sequence manner all this that we are seeing, and he said it
13:22on January, in January this year, and in an escalation from January to July, and he said
13:33that he was going to promote a cold, tiny command, and it was not an electoral structure
13:46but a criminal structure, and we are already seeing it, leader by leader.
13:51Let's see this incident in Bolivar, the subject that before and after participated in beheading
14:03the statue of Commander Chavez, let's see it.
14:11Come on and help me.
14:15Come on and help me, boy.
14:33What I, as a penal lawyer, which is my expertise, with my valedictorian grades after being graduated
14:57as a lawyer, how the experts of criminology, those experts of the study of the mind of
15:12those criminals, they turn into a classic because those who appear expressing, reflecting
15:23in the case of this press conference and the previous ones, you see them, the faces,
15:34and you speak to them, and you have a conversation with them, and they are literally psychos.
15:41They don't care about their beloved ones, but the intellectual authors order them.
15:52Why don't they appear in these actions directly?
15:59They ordered to do it many times from overseas, but obviously they already have this plan
16:10because all of this started on Monday, immediately after electoral results were given.
16:20They didn't manage protesting avenues or mobilizing students, workers, housewives, farmers, et
16:29cetera, but I mean the masses fronts, absolutely nothing.
16:39They didn't move anything regarding this.
16:43They just moved these kinds of subjects that we are showing on screen, which we will show
16:52in these videos on a sequence because we are just choosing from all we are collecting the
17:03most important ones for the people to know and be updated on how these youngsters were
17:13poisoned and even for a criminal target, you don't win an election, but you submit your
17:28candidacy, you want electoral witnesses, that means that you are validating the National
17:39Electoral Council, and as you don't turn out a winner, then you grab this plan of searching
17:50to affect an attack as it was the attack, the automatic system of the transmission of
17:59the acts to produce a blackout at the moment the president of the National Electoral Council
18:10appears and then to boost and to foster a civil war in this country.
18:18That didn't happen because at 12 p.m. on July 28, then the president of the National
18:33Electoral Council appeared and so hours later, it occurred discontent in the far right sector
18:44and at the early hours of the morning, they appear with depressive faces.
18:55The plan they have was this, to commit violent actions to educated facilities and the governmental
19:05institutions, what has to do a military base, what do you have to burn it, and the headquarters
19:14of the Electoral Council, they attacked the police station nearby the port of La Cruz
19:29and they burned down the governmental party in Tigre and the statues in Tigre.
19:37They all are arrested.
19:39I am not going to show you again the video that you have already seen, so I want to show
19:48you Falcón, an insane man that broke into the Electoral Council to plunder the Electoral
19:59Council and he stole the computer and let's see the before and after of this criminal.
20:07Folks, I am here, I have with me a computer.
20:13My name is Al Corderos, I am 19 years old and my ID is…
20:24I was at my home camp and then I heard this uprising and there was all this gathering
20:34and I went to there and I just broke into the Electoral Council and I participated there
20:52in the…
20:53Did you cast your vote?
20:56No, I didn't.
21:00I was protesting to go with the flow.
21:11You committed a crime so you get arrested and you have to respond for that crime.
21:18You don't even cast your vote and he thinks we are playing and he thinks that it is a
21:31game.
21:32Today, not everyone is an influencer.
21:38Here, there is an insane, he is an insane, maybe he would like to imitate a Peruvian
21:57because he raises his hand and then he murders people and you just trigger your pistol.
22:10It seems a very humble lady in Peru and we already identified her.
22:20She is calling, well she triggered her pistol and let's see what's the future of this lady
22:30who is instigating to kill, believing that this is a peaceful protest.
22:35Let's see it.
22:37People, why don't we give one dollar to burn Maduro alive and then pull the trigger and that's it.
23:02Let's see.
23:07She is so funny.
23:09Who can applaud this?
23:12Just the ones addicted to alcohol or drugs who like seeing these kinds of things when
23:25they are high because their adrenaline is high.
23:30When they came to normality, how are they going to feel?
23:36They would feel remorse.
23:40I didn't want to burn alive people or burn down the public facilities.
23:47What an institution of the Venezuelan state has to do with this?
23:55With not being agreeing on an electoral result.
24:01It has nothing to do.
24:03Let's see how Venezuela is today from Wednesday or Thursday.
24:09The isolated uprisings, places on Monday and on Tuesday, they were totally fought off.
24:27And that deserves the acknowledgement and the applause of all of us because the prosecutor's
24:34office and all Venezuelan authorities have been acting immediately.
24:40This is not what happened in 2014.
24:45At that time, the head of the prosecutor's office during 15 years, she gave an order
24:57to not investigate, not arrest on action, not opening files.
25:06And obviously after the detentions, she didn't open any hearings and happened what happened.
25:15In February 2014, the country was on flames.
25:21To not talk about May or June.
25:24But this is not this kind of prosecutor's offices.
25:29We are conscious of wanting to maintain peace and we are abided by constitution.
25:39And of those arrested, we guaranteed a fair trial, a due process proceeding who appeared
25:51to have no direct influence on these incidents.
25:58There are constitutional guarantees.
26:01There is a human right to the due proceeding or to the due fair trial.
26:08And so they will act in consequence of the prosecutor's office and those courts will
26:16be in favor of that innocent.
26:19And so those who were arrested on action, which are all recorded and with pictures,
26:30they will be sentenced with high sentences to be in prison.
26:39So I want even to make some reflections after having seen the videos.
26:49We have stressed, we have underscored that people have to study concepts that are being
26:58used in Venezuela that were in the past maybe in a small extent carried out in some countries
27:10and that in Venezuela they missed all those, let's say, rehearsals of performances of war,
27:21of non-conventional war.
27:25It's not an invention of me.
27:28I know for the study that this is a kind of hybrid war of the fourth generation war,
27:36the one that you consider, where it plays a fundamental role to achieve that population sector
27:47be arising rage, anger, and go to kill, burn facilities, committing crimes, and even the instigation to murdering.
28:04And we are already seeing this in Venezuela as of the time that Chavez took office
28:13and in a scale after the coup d'etat.
28:17And so we have to repeat all those images.
28:22These snipers that were on the roofs, they killed coming from Central America.
28:34They killed several Venezuelans, dozens of Venezuelans to generate chaos.
28:41They even killed photographers, and I remember some who died from that time.
28:49They hurt an opponent, protesters, and the vast majority of victims were in favor of President Chavez.
29:02And on April 11, 2015, I remembered one of them was reading a sheet of paper, trembling, shaking, and saying fake figures.
29:19And the plan was that they caught some members of the military command.
29:27And then there was a response of the civic military population who achieved to return to power Hugo Chavez.
29:42And so who speaks is, I can be witness of the face of fascism because I saw it when they murdered hundreds of thugs who were supported by Mayor Baruca and Chacao.
30:04The treason of that era, some factor who was in charge of that fascist coup of Carmona who let us a police car and we were beaten brutally.
30:25They put me in a car, then in another one, and then I appeared with alleged charges of having war weapons.
30:42Obviously, it all was a setup. They violated the parliamentary impunity, and they had the plan of assassinating President Chavez.
31:01And I want to recall this and the response of the people, the civic military unity. And so from that time, the hybrid war escalated.
31:21So they wanted to stop the climate of peace in Venezuela. There was a referendum in 2004. There were governor's elections and mayor's elections in that year.
31:40There was later elections. In 2006, there were presidential elections in which Hugo Chavez won.
31:57And then the country went into a stability climate, but when this arrived to the infinite and beyond, after the unfortunate death of President Chavez, and they said this is the time,
32:19and there was a second phase of this hybrid war, not only with the drained mind, but what I said, to become a good citizen in a neurotic citizen in which they lose the control of their own lives.
32:48They began to suffer from hypertension and other health disorders because of this social media.
33:01And then it happened in 2014, the known Guarimba uprisings. And then in December 2013, there were regional and municipal elections. There was a peace climate.
33:19The ones who won from the opposition, they gathered with the President of the Republic in Miraflores Palace. And then on January 1st, there was a plan called The Exit.
33:34Who were at that plan wanted from Justice Leopoldo and the one who likes to insult the Venezuelans day and night, losing their identity as lady, the Machado, and the Sir Antonio Ledesma.
33:55They signed that plan, and we could see what happened. Almost 50 deaths generated by these hooded criminals, a big part police officers.
34:14And then in 2017, 2018, after brutal, cohesive sanctions in Venezuela that escalated in 2019, and amid all those years, the attack with drones, C4, some international correspondents,
34:39and they revealed all that fact and classified it as an attempt of assassination against the President. All TV channels recognized it.
34:58There are dozens of convicted for that attempt. And then they came in April 2019, amid having imposed a puppet which was not elected in an electoral circuit of the White House.
35:19And let's see who called Carmona Estanda to vote, the dictator Carmona. He was almost understandable. His speech was very hard to understand.
35:37He called for voting Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia. Those who called to vote for Carmona Estanda, well, you don't be surprised. This is the same coup-monger plan.
35:56And they want to use these armed groups, people who are even being in jail with criminal records for all these bad actions.
36:09I want just to recall before ending that the hybrid world is deployed simultaneously for different internal areas that are projecting even outside to impact the public opinion to influence on the making decisions of the states.
36:36And attacking, affecting civilian and military services, while the hybrid world searches through cohesion, it is to influence population to sow the hate against governmental officials and leaders.
37:06Popular leaders of chavism were spotted by these fascist factors. We applaud the presidential elections in the state.
37:24We applaud the decision of the state to protect the governmental leaders, and they aren't being able to spread bloodshed in our country.
37:37In 2014, it was said that the emotional statuses can be spread individual by individual through social media. So this alteration allowed them to multiply the contents for the information received by these 700,000 people.
38:07So the number of positive and negative messages they read, the users read, and they realized that the users posted negative and positive messages.
38:38According to what they had seen previously.
38:46So if they were able to do all that 12 years ago, how will they develop these kinds of actions?
39:00There are lots of more social media, more tests that are, of course, maybe top secret, and in some time they will be declassified, unclassified.
39:21So they have the capacity to inoculate hate in a specific group of population.
39:33So we are already seeing it. There are lots of testimonies of our friends that many people who consider friends in their families have posted on WhatsApp and on social media instigations of hate, to hate, and even murdering.
40:00And so what these friends have done for their own mental health, they have deleted them from their contacts.
40:17And so they said, I don't imagine, I didn't imagine that that person would come to that.
40:25Some people posting burned places and people full of blood, these places that were vandalized by these criminals, they were surprised because they said that they were normal people who have never expressed things like that, not on social media, but not only on WhatsApp, but on social media.
40:55So we have to set apart from these kinds of people, because if you were with him or her, and everything was peace and love, and then they turn into this hated person, and posting all these negative messages previous July 28.
41:22So the vast majority of the Venezuelan people is like that. No, it's not like that. We have another thought.
41:32So we are prone to dialogue, peace, debate. That's why all of this is explained in what I'm referring. We are under a high operation, and so we have been witnessing a high cyber attack.
41:59The owners of all these social media have united to execute this plan in Venezuela, and achieved what they have achieved in the Green Sex Republic, and in Egypt.
42:19I remember the time, but in Venezuela, they haven't been able to attain it, because even they have tried since 1998.
42:32I could highlight that these attacks to symbols of the political sectors, the attacks of leaders, along with the cyber attacks to the transmission data of the electoral system, they attack all websites.
42:59What do all these have to do with political debate, or dialogue about an issue, an electoral issue, or anything? Nothing. It's dirty.
43:17So this doesn't make sense to you to compete in an election. That's an alibi.
43:27I always said it. The alibi is allegedly the sector of fascism to go to an electoral event, and then escalate in all of these actions that we have been witnessing.
43:42In the interrogations of the detainees, the group known as BB, and a far-right neo-Nazi group, they confess it to attorney generals, to the justice systems.
44:02And even, let's recall, that Analich, an influencer, when he speaks, he seems like a drug addict.
44:18He said, on July 28th, it is the alibi that from that time, we begin an insurrectional escalation.
44:33But it hasn't been like this, because it has been isolated attacks, and they have burned cars to opponents. Opponent journalists, the protesters that were there, burned a car to an opponent journalist.
45:03And so this is just the aftermath of what I am mentioning.
45:10On Sunday evening, there was an operation being conducted. It's not a military coup. It is not an armed insurrection.
45:22Let's say it's not an uprising, or a popular riot, or a military rebellion of military, but this is a cyber attack, virtual attack, that has affected millions of Venezuelans inside and outside.
45:53And so people ask, why do you block me? Who is going to listen to hate messages from subjects that don't seem normal people?
46:06In moments like this, we can distinguish who has this kind of sick mind, and who doesn't want anything of it.
46:28Well, let's finish that the victims of violence are the people who weren't able to go to work.
46:42And they are completely outrageous, because this group prevents them from going to work, and make their business, or go to their regular life.
47:01So let's see the effect is contrary. The people support us, and I want to congratulate the prosecutor's office, because today, we conducted in Carabobos Square, there you see the people.
47:24All our prosecutors and authorities assisting the people. It is happening right now.
47:33From the morning to the end of the afternoon, we are assisting those who have some claims regarding an illegal occupation of their assets, or any robbery situation in their community, or a file that has not been prosecuted.
48:01This is happening now. People are coming to the prosecutor's office, and they are denouncing some events.
48:14And I want to say to these peaceful people that are in front of us, in front of our headquarters, that go forward, and you can count on this prosecutor's office, and the number of people being assisted are over 200, who have arrived and filed their lawsuit.
48:38And this is a very encouraging figure. Over 350,000 Venezuelan people from 2000 until now, they have come to the prosecutor's office, and they have been doing these kinds of wars that make us proud.
49:09And I praise our officials, our people. These images are just happening right now, and they are doing what the people have to do with something that could be affecting their rights.
49:33They have to claim, and the people will be assisted and defended. And applause to the people of Venezuela, and applause to those who have achieved this peaceful climate. And to end, I would answer a question.
49:58Good afternoon, Prosecutor. I would like to know your stance about the resignation of the U.S. Secretary. He will file charges against the President of the Republic.
50:26Well, that of the Almagro, we don't feel pity, because this is a despicable subject in the place where he was born, and in every country.
50:46And he is a person wanted when he caused the coup d'etat in Bolivia, which caused hundreds of injured and dead, and the taking office by a dictator that you see how ended.
51:11He participated in that fascist military coup d'etat against Evo Morales, and he is the puppet of the CIA, the puppet of the U.S., for fostering against Venezuela and the opposing governments of the U.S.
51:35All this escalation of events trying to destabilize the country, but they haven't achieved that. And so I said, go to cry to the valley, because you are a short time left in that post. Nobody wants you.
51:57Well, he hates himself. He has a creepy face. And so who is going to believe this subject who has urged the destabilization of our region? And he hates the Venezuelan people.
52:21Let's see who doesn't recall Almagro crying when he was foreign minister in the Montaña barrack.
52:35He was crying because Hugo Chavez had passed away. But he is completely unfolded. His action was totally disapproved.
52:57Who is he to order anything with the CPI? The Venezuelan state signed a cooperation agreement that is advancing, that is fulfilling the items, the technical cooperation.
53:16And that is what it sees. So nobody on their same mind could believe in a second in that thought that he will brought to justice someday for being the material and intellectual author of destabilizing many governments in Latin America.
53:41So he has to be trialed. In the case of Superlano, I could advance something. I appreciate your question.
53:54That he is in good health condition. And I advance that he is cooperating. And so the ones who know of law know what I am talking about.
54:07And he is admitting some of the things that I have been narrating. And on due time, Frank Ulloa, detainee in Marina, he confessed he is providing interesting data because we have already identified the major group of those who have participated in this attack against the updated,
54:37updating electoral system to the electoral council. He is in good health condition and he has been visited by the human rights prosecutors and he is arrested. And they are cooperating, providing important elements that we will reveal further. Thank you very much.
55:07We have come to the end of this news brief. You can find these and many other stories on our website at TellUsYourEnglish.net. And also join us on social media. We are on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram and TikTok. For Tell Us Your English, my name is Belen De Los Santos. Thank you for watching.
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