Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela's Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, denounced new attempts by mercenary groups to destabilize the country. teleSUR
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00:00It's in front and directly to the operation, recruiting, searching, supplying weapons at
00:28the operation, as such, at that instance we announced to this and immediately they came
00:40up and so they said that they have nothing to do and it is logical and we are compelled
00:45to inform, to tell the truth.
00:49Today we are going to give details about the capture of a new group of mercenaries who
00:56are not the only ones who have been captured and their involvement in the incidents.
01:06We have information of the 71 weapons seized and their attachments to terrorist groups
01:19such as the El Trindadeano and Arawa and so it is important to highlight their involvement
01:26in an operation in which the CNI introduces, enters mercenaries and weapons and so they
01:38established contacts with terrorist groups to attack certain points in the country to
01:45assassinate leaders of the revolution to damage our people and to overthrow the revolutionary
01:56government.
01:58So far the results that they have obtained in this has been just failing and we hope
02:06they continue failing in this target that they go ahead as destabilizing Venezuela.
02:16In this order of ideas I repeat and I want to move towards the structure of how this
02:33group has been made up.
02:37We have said that the United States through the CNI and the OAS they have made some operations
02:55and here we see Venezuela and Colombia and some people, Julio Borges, Carlos Vecchios,
03:05Maria Corina Machado, they are not the only ones, those are the leaders of the operations
03:11here in Venezuela and we have arrested persons involved in the violence in Colombia who has
03:22been recruiters of citizens to go to Venezuela as terrorists and mercenaries and so let me
03:35show you there, I stop here, the next day maybe or maybe the same day that we provide
03:46the press briefing we seized a group of weapons, those that you see, that you see there on
03:56the screen, those are rifles, U.S. rifles type AK made by the United States by a company
04:13that we already denounced, the Centurion Center Arc that has this logo that manufactures rifles
04:27in the United States. It is authorized by the U.S. government and they use these weapons to
04:34destabilize countries and let's continue here, by this operation all these operations have
04:44as a coordinating element to weapons trafficking, Simonovic, he has been the leader of smuggling
04:59weapons not only for Venezuela but for other parts of the world, Bolivia have captured,
05:07have seized weapons and all these weapons have been related to events of his mercenary of weapons
05:16and he's been protected by the United States, he is an agent of the United States for a long time
05:23and so he will, thanks to the rapid action of the security groups of Venezuela, organizations
05:33of Venezuela, there has been a citizen that is about to be identified, alias the David,
05:40and he's in charge of the allocation of the sending of weapons, alias David, and so afterwards we
06:04see in these same operations, we found in the same police operations, we found a group of police
06:15officers that were bringing weapons to Venezuela, Michel Ramirez, he lives in the United States,
06:26Mauricio Andrade Santamaria, he's a Venezuelan and active US military, Leonardo Atilio Micaliti
06:35Hernandez, and Argenis Jose Mavarez Alcala, and so we captured, we seized 24 rifles and they brought
06:50these rifles by portions and then they armed and assembled these rifles here, a group of 24 rifles,
07:06and it is important to note that on the reports that we provide, there have been evidence of a
07:14bigger number that were sent by portions, and so we are looking for these rifles, for these weapons
07:24to neutralize any attack that the far right can do, can launch. Well, let's see right now, here,
07:37these people delivered weapons to these groups, Carlos Alberto Infantes, Jesus Isabel Moreno,
07:47and captain of the Bolivarian Armed Forces, Rafael Obreran, of Venezuela, and Mr. Ricky Rafael Santos,
08:01and Pedro Gerardo Gutierrez. This group operated for the, this group delivered weapons to the
08:12criminal groups as the train, the Aragua, and the train del Llano and Araguas groups. Immediately
08:22after the first, the first publication of this information, and so we got the information of
08:34the criminal groups of the train del Llano and Aragua, they were, they had an operation in the
08:44CPC, they, well, they got an operation in which we seized 33 rifles that have been robbed to our
09:02Bolivarian Armed Forces, and so they, there was, there were some clashes, and unfortunately, an
09:12officer of us passed away in this. Some people, some people died, and others were injured, and
09:23that train del Aragua criminal group, as alias Jason, and it is arrested, the Mr. Raizel Cobar,
09:36and some other people have been arrested as they are involved with these criminal groups,
09:43and these actions, and these, and in that same operation, but entering by the state,
09:51they came to the city, Jose Dia Rodriguez, Jose Manuel Gonzalez Moreno, and Randy Alexander
10:00Gonzalez have been arrested, and they were all involved with Castaneda, and we have evidence of
10:10it, of their contact with that criminal. And now, let's see more other subjects.
10:20So, leave it there. On the, on the left, please. We, last time, we, we said that we,
10:41Joseph Castaneda was arrested, and that citizen that it is here, Renzo Yassi,
10:48who mansions Castillo, has been arrested, and he is a Peruvian, and so we have some photos of
11:00these citizens who, who is attached to the criminal, a criminal group. There he, he is,
11:17as you can see. Continue, please. So, he was captured hunting for Venezuela at the border,
11:32and all, all these individuals said that they are deeply in love with Venezuela. They come here to
11:42visit their partners, their loved partners, but that's the recipe they, they ordered them to,
11:51to say. So, this mister is different from the rest of mercenaries coming to Venezuela. The,
12:00the main condition of the new mercenaries is that they are able to speak Spanish. So,
12:09this gentleman that you see, his body, he's been tattooed all over his body,
12:17referred to fanatism from the bottom of his head to any part of his body, and so he came to damage
12:30the people of Venezuela. And then, and then that second citizen, Jan Darmozoval, he's arrested from
12:39the, previously, with all the involvements, everyone is involved, and this figure comes up,
12:50Jonathan Pagan Gonzalez, U.S. citizen. He's a U.S. citizen. So, between his work was to get
13:11into the religious sectors, he was arrested in the state of Zulia in a raid in which someone
13:21offered him to be a Venezuelan citizen, ID, have an ID, and so he confessed all his attachments
13:32with, with the destabilizing plans, and behind him, there's a powerful group coming from the
13:40United States, and they know who they are. And this gentleman, we managed to arrest a head of
13:49the state of Zulia, and so he was, he, he was offered five, five hundred one million, no,
14:03five hundred one dollars to, to get this in the, five hundred one million dollars to get
14:19this individual out of prison. And so, let's remind that we have, we have arrested Valdovinos
14:31and Andres, Andres Martinez, those are direct agents of the intelligence, intelligence centers
14:46of Spain, who, which is a recruiter of mercenaries, mercenaries, and so this, they,
14:53David Estrella, an Ecuadorian citizen, and so they all speak Spanish to be able to enter into
15:02communities, and so you will see these specialists, and unless someone gets, gets to speak in English
15:15or, or any other language, immediately these citizens would be detected, but as these citizens
15:24all speak Spanish, they, it, it was harder to, to detect. So, this partner, Manuel Alejandro Tiquet,
15:32Tiquet Chavez, he's being hidden behind NGO's involve, attachments, but this partner is a
15:43recruiter. Pay attention that we, we got the early information of paramilitary groups declaring war,
15:55and I have heard early, could you please put me this? So, he was helping mercenaries and
16:12terrorists, and so then, Arley Danilo Espitia, this is a leader of the Paracos, of the Paracos,
16:27and, and he was a recruiter of Paracos, and this gentleman was leading those of El Tren
16:41de Aguas groups, and then Jose, Jorge Marcelo Vargas, a U.S., a U.S. and Bolivian citizen,
16:57and this mister was arrested taking pictures of refineries. This was taken
17:10from his cell phone. You can see it there. It is strange that tourists come here in Venezuela to
17:21take those kinds of pictures. So, he already declared that he was taking pictures to, to study
17:34how to get access to refineries for terrorist attacks. So, this is in, in El Cardón, Punto Fijo.
17:49Then, Said Aguada, Lebanese citizen, captured, and he was coming to Venezuela as a tourist to
18:07find a girlfriend, and, but he's attached to Espitia, to this gentleman, to Arley Danilo
18:16Espitia. So, those are the paramilitary mercenary groups. Continue, please. I was talking about the
18:30experts. Aaron Barrett Logan, U.S. citizen, specialist hacker. He, he has been captured
18:47and so on his phone he had data of entities that he was hacking. Aaron Barrett Logan. And so,
19:01the next is Gregory David Weber, another hacker who received the mission to sabotage the technology,
19:14the technological structure of Venezuela. And on his phone, there were pictures of the operations
19:21they, they were carrying out. And so, they were sending reports, and one of them arrived. And so,
19:33we, he's, someone, some of them boasted about that in Venezuela there wasn't security, but they
19:43were captured by these security entities of Venezuela. All of them have, were involved
19:53with their alleged couples, but all of them have, are being involved with the train, the Del Llano
20:03and Aragua criminal groups. And so, there, that citizen is a specialist of paramedics activities,
20:12and his mission was related to provide assistance in case of injured, injured in the terrorist
20:20activities. David Guttenberg Glom, so he was arrested too, also with his Venezuelan partner.
20:32So, the CNI, with the leadership of the whole operation, the CIA, and the DA,
20:45the DA provided instructions to the CNI, and to, related to the Paracas activities,
21:00and a group of mercenaries hired in Europe, group of mercenaries coming from the United States,
21:09experts, hackers, a whole operation against the country, besides the, the weapons trafficking.
21:18Some of, some of, some maybe say all of it is a lie, but I am going to read,
21:28a communiqué, a communiqué by Interpol on October 7th. Matter. Illegal arms trafficking.
21:42Dear colleagues, dear colleagues, we hope you are fine. The program of the arms fire have been
21:53aware of a maritime cargo towards Venezuela, suspicions of having illegal weapons, and so,
22:06they have been exported from the United States. So, we ask to you, respectfully, that there has,
22:14if there have been the illegal arms trafficking, and if you manage to locate and recover the,
22:23the weapons, please provide all information, all details of each weapon, or by giving the
22:35description of all these delivery. The boxes and the weapons will be very useful for,
22:46for managing this illicit operation, and the US office of Interpol have already carried the
22:57weapons attached to this operation, which have been smuggled, and let us know if you manage to
23:08intercept these weapons. I really appreciate your cooperation. Sincerely, yours, Interpol.
23:18So, what, some, so this is the Interpol of the United States. You may wonder,
23:27they are playing an anticipated game. They know that these weapons are,
23:36these are the weapons. So, let's see the details. There you see.
23:47So, we don't put that logo. What does it mean?
24:06It is the same logo, as you can see.
24:20I am going to read something that is on the internet. It is a flag
24:27of the General Christopher Gatzer, that he designed the weapons on the 19th century,
24:38and he, it was used by the, the former battles, and this flag is known by the United States,
24:48and it represents the liberalism, and it represents feelings in front of the states,
24:59and there it is, the flag of Gatzer, along with the Nazi flag at a demonstration in Charlottetown,
25:11in Charlottetown. It is, it is strange, isn't it? So, the flag has been used by the extreme
25:22right groups, and the authors of 2014, and the millions, allegedly placed the, the flag
25:35on the corpses they killed. It is the U.S. extreme right wing. Do you know that in the
25:44United States, any people, any person can purchase a weapon, and so it is easier to buy
25:53a weapon, a rifle, than an antibiotics. It is terrible what happens in the United States,
26:01and when Interpol sends this communique to Venezuela, what, what is it saying?
26:09That, that we take care of ourselves here in Venezuela. They already know that we captured
26:20those weapons. They, they know all these actions, all, all the, the operations we,
26:28we, we have been carrying out, so they are, they are putting at risk the security of Venezuela,
26:35a group of mercenaries, citizens of some parts of the world, hired directly by the
26:46Spanish Intelligence Center, CNI. I repeated, I confirmed it
26:52with the help of the CIA and DEA, directly, without any mediators,
27:03and the plan is to overthrow the Bolivarian revolution.
27:09They are playing an anticipated position, but we are going to continue with the operations
27:18nationwide, to review each container, each chip, and so that's why we have found it by portions.
27:33So, we are going to review any delivery. I am, I am mentioning a group of mercenaries
27:41already arrested, but all of these have their counterpart,
27:48Venezuelan citizens who have been arrested, and at the order of courts,
27:59those rifles that were found, that were recovered in combats in the Tejerias mountains,
28:08who were stolen from the Bolivarian armed forces.
28:15Many have counted on collaboration, sadly, and collaborators have been arrested,
28:25and all of this is involved with the great conspiracy against Venezuela,
28:31and today I announced a second delivery, but there are, there is so much more, and we continue working
28:4024-7, without rest, reviewing everything that we have to review, and we are working
28:50for the tranquility of Venezuelans, of Chavistas Venezuelans, and of any political trend,
28:58for the tranquility and security of Venezuelans, and there are more than 500 weapons.
29:06You know that they are coming from there, and please put the pictures of those of Maracaibo,
29:14the U.S. security systems reviewing, but they let them go, go out of the country, and there you see
29:25the alias David doing the delivery, sending the, there you see the rifles,
29:40and so in the present chart, there you see the U.S. officials when they
29:49seized, so they know, and the previous one, it is, it is a pity that I cannot show the,
30:01the whole recording, because, and so they, they reviewed all the weapons that were sent to
30:11Venezuela, but they let them go out, and especially it was the FBI, but I cannot
30:19provide the detailed information, because I would, I would turn the informant out,
30:30so they were sent without any munitions, the majority of cases, because they said that here
30:39they have the munitions, because these are the rifles of our Bolivarian armed forces,
30:47and this is a battle of all Venezuelans, and I ask for the collaboration, and so far it is
30:55being extremely important the information provided with, by the Venezuelans that,
31:02that realize of any strange movements, and so then after, after this we proceed,
31:14and that Mr. of the Zulia,
31:26there you see, let me look,
31:32over here, there you see Jonathan Pagán González, Jonathan Pagán González, that gentleman,
31:44is, has a serious involvement in the Zulia state to, to assassinate
31:58the President Maduro, and Vice President Rodríguez, and other officials
32:06with a facade of the church, so they know how they work, it is the imperialists operating,
32:15contacting, and we are just pulling the strings, and so someone was concerned by the U.S. citizens,
32:27who has been, who have been arrested in Venezuela, they are very well, in very well condition,
32:35much, much better than those detained in Guantanamo base. We don't mistreat anyone,
32:43we don't isolate anyone, but we are looking into
32:47every, every evidence. We respect their rights, but their government must assume that they are
32:57coming here in Venezuela to, to attack authorities, to attack public services, to damage our country.
33:08Yesterday, there was a failure, an attack on the power grid. Yesterday, no one thinks that
33:20this is spontaneous, or, or that's not like that, if it's so, but it is difficult, the mystics
33:32against a terrorist attack, so they search the grid to damage the vast majority of Venezuelans,
33:42and so we are in front, in front, working, working, and providing you information,
33:51and the military command is crystal clear. We, we know where we stand, and they know,
33:59we know that they will continue denying the weapons, and the attacks. Surely, they,
34:10they will say that, that I placed the, the evidence. Don't, don't treat me, don't, don't,
34:23don't. So, it is fascism operating. If there is any question, I will, I will answer you.
34:36The first question is Madeleine Garcia by Telesur. Hi, how are you doing, Minister?
34:43Good morning. You mean that this operation hasn't finished, so from here to January 10th,
34:53the deadline for the opposition, how would you profile this operation? How many mercenaries
35:03have been arrested, and if there are detained people here, what, what, what are their involvement
35:16with, with the mayor of, mayorship of Maracaibo, mayor office of Maracaibo? So, in January,
35:27we, all the work that we are carrying out is to assure the, the peace,
35:39at that day, and so they are, they want to execute a kind coup against the state,
35:48so they, they are involved with the opposition. Simone said that nothing is done without the
35:56authorization of Maria Corina Machado. That was said by Simone, who is the one sending the
36:07weapons to Venezuela. He sends mercenaries, and the lady, Maria Corina, is updated about this,
36:16and she, she doesn't say anything because it is not convenient for her, but she is updated about
36:24this, and the damage that they want to, they want, so all, all of them support the Maria Corina
36:35Machado. These criminal groups support Maria Corina Machado, and remember the, the, the violent
36:44acts of the comanditos groups, the evil, evil against Venezuela. It is Julio Borges, who's always
36:55at the conspiracy incidents, and Vecchio Uribe, I am certain about it. Uribe, Uribe and Duque
37:08are always there. They are in charge of sending their, sending paramilitaries to here, and
37:20he's speaking and, and telling what are their, their connections, and they think that they are
37:28in Colombia, that in Colombia they are, they, they are arrested and, and said I am,
37:40I am John Doe, and they paid, and they released, but here it is different.
37:49So, but we respect all their rights, and that involvement with the opposition sectors,
37:55it is crystal clear. They are talking about that everything ends, and the, the end is,
38:12is, is getting closer for those extreme groups, and we warned that do not attend anything,
38:20because we are ready for everything, and we assume our responsibility.
38:28They have no involvement with the mayor office of the Maracaibo. It is a, an act of corruption,
38:38but at some point we will provide further details. Oscar Pineda by Union Radio.
38:44Good afternoon, Minister. Minister, what's the legal status of citizens of Spain, United States,
38:53Colombia, Czech Republic, who have been detained in this plot that you are denouncing,
39:00who are involved with the CNI of Spain? In that legal status, are they already processed
39:09on trial, and finally, the interior ministry has a, has connections with the authorities
39:23for developing the investigations? Thank you, Oscar. Well, all these citizens have been,
39:32have been on, on trial, complying with the times that the law establishes,
39:41and providing them the guarantees that stipulated by law, but, so doing the research as it
39:50corresponds, all of them are in good shape, are in good health condition. No one has been mistreated.
39:57They, the mistreatments are in Guantanamo's military base, or in other places, but what
40:04is true is that each of them have, has been providing information for solving this puzzle
40:16with the, their attachments with the arms trafficking, and the criminal groups, and their
40:25political, political involvement, and all of these has several branches.
40:37All of them have been in contact with a refugee of justice, Maria, and it is part of this
40:48mercenary network against its own, his own country. These citizens, these sec,
40:56sec Spanish U.S. citizens, Peruvian citizens, we, who have been arrested,
41:04all have been presented in the corresponding entities. You know what? This is one of the things
41:13that they were, were willing to say who's the chief justice, who's the, the security
41:25organizations that are operating, but we are compelled to safeguard the justice system of
41:32Venezuela from the, the mercenaries regarding governments. It is hard to have a relationship
41:42with the United States when the United States, we have captured a mercenary of their, of the U.S.
41:53Army, an expert on explosives, and they just claimed that he came here as a tourist, and it
42:05is crystal clear that he is, he was not a tourist, and there is going to be a third delivery,
42:18part of all the investigation, because it, maybe if we provide further details, we could
42:28destroy the whole operation, and it is hard to, to establish a relationship with the CNI
42:35of Spain, because first they denied the, the incident, and they know that it is true
42:44that they are recruiters of mercenaries, they are paying off Marroquí and other
42:51foreigners to come here to Venezuela to cause terrorist acts here in Venezuela, and it is hard
42:59to have a relationship with the CNI when they want us, they want to overthrow the,
43:06the official government. They would never admit that. We identified the Mr. Bernal, owner of a hotel,
43:17I've never said the name of the hotel or the name of the person, and immediately
43:24come out, came out a Spanish mister of the Latinas, Mr. Bernal, and,
43:36and he said that they were there, and he confirmed that they were there, but no one asked him,
43:46and so the government of Colombia has a lot of internal problems, but the damage that they did,
43:58that they did in Venezuela, it will immediately reverse in Colombia, and they are using
44:05paramilitary, Colombian paramilitaries here in Venezuela, and so it is hard when the
44:12Interpol sends, sent this letter saying that there is an armed trafficking, it is contradictory,
44:22and they say it is suspected, it is suspected an illicit arms trafficking, and, and so
44:34they, they do not assure anything, but then they said that the Interpol said
44:43that they have carried the weapons and the serials,
44:50they, they carried, they uploaded all the serials to the system, so they are playing
44:58an advanced position, they, they are complicit in this incident, and it is a verifiable act,
45:09and what's more, when you heard that a U.S. campaign to assassinate a president, and if,
45:18and it is not an investigation there, so it is hard to, to talk to, with that government,
45:24as they allowed mercenaries to assassinate a president, how can we believe with them,
45:35as they should have opened an investigation, if here in Venezuela there will be five mercenaries
45:43to, to raise funds to assassinate a president, they will be immediately in prison, because Venezuela
45:50won't have that role, won't play that role, and so it is a double standard policy, and here
45:57in Venezuela there is justice, they are arrested, well cared, protected,
46:04and no one has mistreated them. Thank you very much. And the third and last question, Gonzalez.
46:12Good afternoon, Minister, and I am taking into account these new detentions,
46:20the Venezuelan government has some kind of contact with the government of Gustavo Petro
46:28about the detention of the Colombian citizen, thank you, it is not one Colombian, but many,
46:36several Colombians, and the Colombian government has helped us, the security
46:44entities of Colombia has helped us identify the citizens,
46:50but officially, we would like to, that sir of La Estonina's hotel be,
47:03be called for, for see, for seeing what he says, because everyone passes by that hotel, books,
47:14books in that hotel, so it is very important that the neighboring countries understand
47:23that whatever happens to Venezuela has immediate aftermaths over them, because it is like a
47:33destabilizing modus operandi, only the labs used by the imperialism, these are the labs used by,
47:42by the imperialists against countries with independence, sovereignty, and so these are the
47:49labs, and in Bolivia, there were seized over 200 rifles made up, made by, made in Israel,
48:04this is not a lie,
48:08the, the symbol is not a lie,
48:13the symbol is not a lie, this organization exists, this stream, the, this U.S. stream group exists,
48:25and, and one of the rifles came with this symbol, but surely there are many more, and so who's behind
48:37this? There are pistols of, worth of $8,000. You can touch the weapons if you want to check that
48:53this is real, this, there you see the portions of the rifles, the ones that were unarmed,
49:01and we are after the search of another delivery, and so we hope that the U.S. officials avoid
49:12any more cargoes toward Venezuela, heading for Venezuela, and so I am sure that these mercenaries
49:22are not only in Venezuela, but also in other countries who are not in favor of the United
49:30States, and so we have provided this information, a total of 19 arrested people with foreign
49:42nationalities, for, we, I presented 14 of them, and we continue on the investigation,
49:53we continue solving the, the puzzle, we continue working without any, any noise, and we are trying
50:05to guarantee the tranquility of Venezuelans, and President Nicolás Maduro recommended this
50:12press briefing to inform the community, and for the people know that we are doing our job,
50:18that the Venezuelan government is doing their job, and that the world knows that
50:25Venezuela is prepared to counteract any attempt against Venezuela, outside or inside. Some people
50:36say over 500 weapons, there you see how many mercenaries are, come from, from these,
50:53the criminal groups
50:57of snipers operating here in Venezuela,
51:04and trust in the work of the police, of the Bolivarian armed forces, and Venezuela will
51:13continue to be a territory of absolute peace and tranquility. Good afternoon to all,
51:21warm hugs, and we will continue with the third delivery soon.
51:34We were listening, we were listening to Diosdado Cabello, Minister of the Interior,
51:45as we continue to see images, as we continue to see images in which he's displaying the weapons
51:52of what they were talking right before, let's recall that Minister Diosdado,
52:00Minister Diosdado was giving details on their captures, let's continue to listen.
52:10They're of, of US manufacture, those weapons,
52:16those weapons, with its chargers and the group of rifles, all captured, which were stolen
52:32from the Bolivarian armed forces, and there you see the weapons that came here by portions,
52:40these are parts of weapons, portions of weapons, canyons,
52:48to be, to be armed here in Venezuela, the parts of the weapons, there you see all of them.
52:58They were bringing accessories that allowed that a pistol turn into a rifle,
53:08and so trust the Venezuelan people that the national government guarantees
53:15the peace of the Venezuelan people. Good afternoon.
53:25So, we were listening to the Venezuelan Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello,
53:30that was live in Venezuela, as he gave details to the population about the newly captured suspects
53:35involved in actions against the peace and stability of the South American country.