Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela’s Minister of Interior, Justice & Peace offers a press conference regarding a seize of weaponry belonging to terrorist gangs that will threaten the peace of the Venezuelan people. teleSUR
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00:00We can tell the country about a first stage.
00:03We say about a first stage because you know that when we inform here, there are things
00:08that we can say and others that we cannot say yet, that cannot be told yet because they
00:13are being developed right now.
00:16For example, people that are fully identified but have not been detained yet.
00:22In this operation that we began in the Zulia State – don't move the image.
00:43So the operation is here.
00:45The operation's name is No to Christmas.
00:48It's the same plotline as always.
00:51There won't be no Christmas in Venezuela, and a citizen, a businessman comes into play
00:56whose name is Jose Enrique Rincon, the owner of several companies in the Zulia State, especially
01:06in the shrimping area, in the agricultural area, who together with his sons Juan Diego
01:13and Jose Enrique, they have strong links with opposition sectors from a very long
01:22time.
01:23He's a person that one little by little gets to know the power that he has created
01:31around the management of wealth, of money.
01:40Every time that there was a change in officials in the Zulia State, this man and emissary
01:47was sent, and the process of recruiting began, and that's how they have recruited military
01:55judges and other people into this operation.
01:59This man, Jose Rincon, is not currently in the country.
02:02And why he's not in the country?
02:06Somehow, when we began the investigation in the archival state, they thought they could
02:13be implicated.
02:16That's why he left with one of his sons abroad.
02:20So being abroad amidst this investigation, he just had a health issue, neurism, and he's
02:26currently in a delicate health situation due to the, we think, the stress of the situation.
02:34For this reason, his other sons that remain here also left, and they are all currently
02:39in Spain.
02:40The phones, the phones that they are using, are located in Spain, and they have direct
02:47links with Iván Simónove, again with terrorist María Corina Machado, with Tomás Guanipa,
03:00with Juan Pablo Guanipas, and other people that we have them here, journalists, lawyers.
03:15All this we want to tell you that they are identified, but I won't say the names so that
03:23they won't be, have a head start to flee.
03:28I say these other ones because they are already known in several conspiracy activities.
03:34Also the man has restaurants, different places where he invites people over, they have carried
03:43out meetings in those places, they've participated with military personnel.
03:48They are all identified, but they are not still detained.
03:57They are in control of the judicial area, but why could we think this?
04:01Why are they doing this in the judicial process?
04:04So that's where the detainee comes in, the plans in the prisons, and parts of the plan
04:13was to give people detained in different prisons, give them explosives and weapons.
04:26And I have to say that they all had a network in three other states in Venezuela.
04:32So we are acting in every single one of those states.
04:35They were detained, Pedro Velasco Prieto, who was the president of the judicial circuit
04:41of Zulia, Maurelia Vils Prieto, also another judge from Zulia, and Mario Plaza Hernández,
04:51another judge from Zulia, and Francisco Javier Urdaneta, a prosecutor of the public ministry,
04:59José Gregorio Rendón, a higher prosecutor of the Zulia state, and around them different
05:08links with opposition leaders from the party First Justice mainly.
05:22So two facts could be intertwined here, the plot of conspiracy, and so we are going over
05:33the conspiracy plot to overthrow the government.
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