The Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, denounced new evidence of destabilization attempts by the extreme right wing in complicity with the U.S. government, on the eve of the elections on Sunday, May 25. teleSUR
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00:00love to give signals, that love to talk more than they should, and that allow us to
00:08connect the dots in this investigation. They are constantly talking about different signals.
00:13Marina Corina Machado talked recently about signals, be attentive to the signals.
00:20They openly talk about sabotage the elections. While they speak, we act.
00:30And from a few days ago, we received information
00:36that I simply alerted back then, and now I ratified it, of attacks with exclusives
00:44led especially to embassies here in Venezuela. Embassies here in Venezuela,
00:52because they're in the meetings. Well, if we put a bomb on an embassy, the world will know this.
01:00And they will speak in the world about the weakness of the government.
01:06So these are people that have any kind of morals. They don't care about death. They only care for
01:15to have an impact in the international level. Because here, internally, we know that politically,
01:23their actions have discredited them, and they are on the side of the law. And they
01:30cannot act politically or morally because of the crimes they've committed.
01:36So they pointed at embassies as their main objective for an attack. Police stations.
01:44Because according to them, that will make the police force to join their movement. But that's
01:56like cutting the legs of someone and tell them afterwards to join them. That's what they believe,
02:02that they believe that if they bomb police stations, police officers will join them.
02:07A very particular way of acting at hospitals. Unbelievable, but true. Care centers.
02:17And when we talk about this, we have documents. We have conversations.
02:24We have proof through phones that speak about these hospitals. Because that would be a shock.
02:34And now no one will be able to hide it. Something that happened in a hospital, in a health center.
02:45Areas of public services, transport, gas stations, power stations.
02:56And then, of course, important figures from both the Bolivarian Revolution and the Venezuelan
03:01opposition. Especially those that today are leading as candidates of the opposition.
03:09It's a scenario that they want to present to the world.
03:12That in Venezuela, there are no conditions to carry out an election. Now, the world knows perfectly
03:20that the electoral schedule has been abided with.
03:24And we have been doing everything that was planned and that the country is ready for
03:28these elections. Plan Bolivar launches formally this week in electoral centers within the framework
03:37of the Republic Plan. I'm sure that Venezuelans have seen our security forces and the National
03:48Guard patrolling the streets, not only of Caracas, but of the whole of Venezuela,
03:55taking precautions for this. And this has taken us in this new conspiracy plot and terrorist plot
04:09to act in these four main fronts.
04:14We have detained a group of Venezuelans that were returning to the country
04:20with explosive artifacts.
04:30They are called electric explosives. We can show them.
04:39Electric triggers. There are eight there that were taken from two people that were arriving.
04:44Eight. Each was an objective. Each trigger is an objective.
04:55I don't know if I'm making myself understood. These are put on an explosive
04:59and it's the one that launches the explosion.
05:04This would seem that it's insignificant, but without this, there is no real possibility
05:11of preparing an explosive device in which the person can be away from the explosive,
05:17because this is the advantage it has, because it can be then activated by their phones
05:22or by time, or with a timer, a watch, with different mechanisms.
05:29So, each of these was an objective. Within the objective, I'm telling you,
05:34embassies, police stations, hospitals, health care centers, public services, and important figures.
05:46So, figures that they would like to attack from the Bolivarian Revolution,
05:51it's always the same. In this case, it's the Bolivarian Revolution itself.
05:58We are always taking care. We take the precautions to prevent this from happening.
06:06The ill-named coyotes.
06:12A network link, all because they have the phone contacts
06:18of kidnappings here in Venezuela.
06:23Douglas Rico is here, a witness of this, that that figure has practically disappeared.
06:33Days ago, we began to get cases of kidnappings in the western area of the country.
06:42And the payment that they were using is a different method through cryptocurrencies,
06:48supposedly to not leave any kind of trace. The investigation was launched, and by chance,
06:58and by chance I say, because nothing happens by chance, the head of that group is a former official
07:07of the National Armed Forces, of those that participated on April 30th,
07:13when back in the April 30th, they went to Altamira, and that's one of the officials
07:20that is the head of that criminal gang, Gómez Morán.
07:29There he is, Arturo José Gómez Morán.
07:33Arturo José Gómez Morán.
07:39And one might think, what does this have to do with anything else? Well, it's terror.
07:46This official has direct links. He's in the United States, protected by the United States
07:52government, protected by the United States government. He has direct links with these groups.
08:03In the United States, I will say that the person in charge of this latest conspiracy in Venezuela
08:12is Ivan Simonovich, who has a long history of failures, but
08:22that does not make us overconfident. On the contrary, before his long history of failures,
08:30he has a lot of thirst for vengeance. And when I say this,
08:36it's that they lose. If they had any kind of honor, it completely disappears.
08:43This group of coyotes kidnapped people. Among his tasks, they had of creating terror in their
08:52families of state officials of the Venezuelan state. Then we have the mercenaries.
09:05We arrive at this moment
09:11with 38 new detained,
09:13those that brought explosives, the coyotes, mercenaries,
09:19people that have arrived in Venezuela of which 17 are foreigners
09:25and 21 Venezuelans. They have arrived in Venezuela and don't have any kind of justification. When we
09:33check their mobile phones, they speak clearly of the work that they come to do in our country
09:50that has to do with these mafia groups of violence, of terrorism and conspiracy.
09:56We have captured people coming through the border with Colombia and others that have
10:08tried to enter through flights, regular commercial flights from Colombia. When we do the shock up,
10:17the flights that come from Colombia, but they come from third countries. They first go to
10:27Colombia and they come here. So we have given instructions to suspend immediately all flights
10:35that come from Colombia to Venezuela because the information that we have
10:41has to do with this kind of movement of people. See how they evolve. In the first,
10:51were mercenaries that didn't care if they spoke Spanish or not. Then they mutated to the fact
10:57that they must speak Spanish. And now it's just people that come with clear objectives and they
11:01will enter like any other tourist into Venezuela. Fortunately, we have learned
11:07and we have the capacity, the ability to directly detect the majority of these cases.
11:17They spoke of signals that they are ready in Venezuela,
11:21where there are already 38 detained in Venezuela and sending you this signal
11:27that we have 38 detained. And the third, the fourth,
11:33the fourth way that they have has to do with drug trafficking.
11:43We have said this several times from here. Tomorrow, when New York Times has this information,
11:51then they will say that it's true. When the Washington Post says it, people will say,
11:57oh, it's true. No, but we have been saying this for a while. The financing of all the
12:02conspiracies, terrorism in Venezuela comes straight from drug trafficking from Colombia,
12:09from the Colombian drug trafficking, where we have the, where Uribe, Duque, Pastrana and Santos
12:16are the one leading this. Duque, Uribe, Pastrana and Santos, the leaders of drug trafficking
12:25in Colombia. And this is known by everyone in Colombia. This is not an overreaction of ours,
12:32not at all. Recently, we detained a citizen that his origin is Albanese,
12:47comes from Albania, but has also Colombian nationality.
12:51So he was detained at the airport. This citizen, I will show you.
12:59This citizen, we, in cooperation with the capacities that we have,
13:05we began to pull the string. And the man is searched as an international drug trafficker.
13:16By chance, they know nothing in Colombia about it. And they know nothing about it in Colombia,
13:23because they even have a permit to carry arms in Colombia. This citizen,
13:27who is searched internationally for drug trafficking.
13:34Do you have the picture of the permit? If we can download it and put it on the screen,
13:39so that you see that we aren't lying about anything. This citizen, when he's captured,
13:47when he was detained, we began to, well, first, that he tried to
13:53bribe the officials. Then he turned violent in his acting, and he had to be subdued.
14:02He had to be subdued. We always try to avoid, to make the use of firearms. And we have to say that
14:14this man went crazy, and he had to be detained by force, by officials.
14:24And when we began to pull the strings, he had reservations in a hotel here in Caracas.
14:31And that reservation was made from the United States. But what does that have to do with this?
14:38People might wonder. Well, you can check, dear journalist, who is in charge in Ecuador of the
14:46mafia of drug trafficking, who is in charge in Ecuador of that mafia of Colombian drug trafficking
14:52that is operating with the Ecuadorian president. And there comes the other connection,
14:57said by themselves, there you have it, Colombian Republic, the permit for carrying weapons.
15:15It's similar to those permissions that were given by Uribe
15:22when he was the leader of aeronautics in Colombia.
15:28And the expiration date is 2032, so it's very recent.
15:43So the mafia of drug trafficking in Ecuador,
15:48there are several citizens from Albania that are leading that mafia.
15:52I have nothing against the nationals of that country, but this is a reality.
15:58And in Colombia and Ecuador, there are also training camps for the paramilitary drug,
16:07for paramilitaries related to drug trafficking.
16:16And they say themselves that they were trained Venezuelans.
16:19As a fact, these people that came, that were detained with the triggers, they were in Ecuador.
16:27So we want to warn the country.
16:34We want to firstly warn our people to have the utmost care and still
16:49have the utmost protection.
16:53Those are the ones that we detained with the triggers.
16:57We have these investigations right now on their way, so I don't want to show any more
17:06than we want to right now, because as we are speaking, there are currently raids being
17:12carried out in different parts of Caracas and Venezuela. So they will have signals,
17:16and they're going to be very precise signals.
17:21If you want to create violence, you will have a strong response by the Bolivarian government.
17:28And behind all this is Maria Corina Machado and also Ivan Simonovic.
17:37They are all taking part in terrorism, conspiracy, drug trafficking,
17:44coyotes, human trafficking.
17:52Those are the components that they are trying to implement to prevent elections to be held
17:57on May 25th, and they won't be able to do so. They won't be able to prevent our people to
18:04express themselves. We have been working for days in silence, and when we work in silence,
18:12it's true. When we are working in silence, we are working. And then they come out and say,
18:19oh, they captured this one. Well, we also seized three phones.
18:27Well, what's on those phones is pure gold.
18:33It's what is on those phones of information of their contacts here in Venezuela.
18:42Groups that we have detained of foreign citizens that were here in Venezuela
18:51with information and data from different leaders, different sectors,
19:02the leaders of different community organizations and projects.
19:12We know what they tried to do here. They even say in one of the conversations,
19:18but they weren't able to because we closed the circle, that in a recent event they were going
19:26to send people to take pictures of those around leading the event that was an event that was over
19:36there at the Pantheon. And then they say they could not take the pictures because things turned
19:46difficult. And I can tell you that it will be even more difficult, ladies and gentlemen,
19:54if you try anything against the Venezuelan state and people. You cannot even imagine it.
19:59If there are any questions, please.
20:10Greetings, Minister. Good afternoon.
20:16Several topics, or at least to make it clear from the statements that you just made. You speak of 38
20:25new detainees. Are those 38,
20:32are these seven members of the cryptocurrency are part of those 38?
20:43On what grounds were those seven crypto assets detained?
20:48Because it appears that they came to do some targeted kidnapping of high officials.
20:56And does this have any links with what was detected in the Zulia state with the mayors
21:02that were detained, et cetera? And if you can make a balance sheet of what is happening in Zulia.
21:11Effectively, so a month ago, we had the information of a kidnapping over there in the west area.
21:22We acted.
21:27The person was charged with cryptocurrencies.
21:31For the ransom, we began to pull the string. The person decided to pay immediately.
21:40We began to pull the string. We carried out the investigation.
21:44And a while ago, another person was kidnapped in Lada state,
21:50which is perhaps the one you're referring to, which is also public now.
21:54They asked for an amount of money, also in cryptocurrency.
21:58And we set up a whole operation with all the different organizations.
22:05And we managed to detain the material authors of that crime.
22:14They all have confessed, they have spoken. And among the things that they have said
22:19is that their function this year was the kidnapping of family members,
22:24of ours, to disencourage us. See? All morals have been lost.
22:34So from what in theory will be a political fact, it's a criminal action of the lowest standards.
22:43And we know these people, we know they have no kind of morals.
22:50It has to do with what happens in Zulia. Of course, we have met, we have a series of detentions.
23:01What happens is that now you detain someone right now, and they quickly say that it's because they
23:07are being, they're going to be a candidate. That's their excuse. But the operation is in
23:12full development, and there's links there. The presence of that Albanian citizens here
23:18is not by chance. His links here are not by chance. His relationships here in Venezuela
23:25are not by chance. His relationships in Colombia are not by chance. In Colombia, they try to go,
23:36try to find in Colombia if he's being searched internationally. And what does come up?
23:40Nothing. When you go on other levels, there you have that he has a notice for drug trafficking.
23:48But this is not only drug trafficking. He comes here to, he also come here to
23:58get reports from the money they have paid, because we have seized, how much is it? 32 tons
24:04of drugs seized. And these people are reaching 40 tons, and that's a lot of money for them.
24:10It's money that they are using for conspiracy here in Venezuela. Remember that all that began
24:17with a meeting that was detected in Colombia between Marina Corina Machado and Mr. Rincon,
24:24who used the front of being a shrimp businessman for drug trafficking.
24:32But it's drug trafficking, it's political power, it's money, drug, and perversion.
24:41We in the investigation, we have not said this, I think. It has been proven completely without a
24:48doubt how they use the shipments, the shipments of shrimps to fill them with cocaine. This has
25:06been proven. We detain officials from different institutions, unfortunately, but it is the way it
25:13is, because none of this happens without the complicity at some levels. In some cases,
25:18the complicity is, I will look the other way, but that also makes you responsible.
25:29The number of detained, we can talk about this in another occasion, but that continues to move
25:33forward, and today in the meeting, in the previous meeting, in the preliminary meeting that
25:37we have within the investigation, a group of people are going to be detained. Thank you.
25:52The United States recently issued an alert for U.S. citizens that not to travel to Venezuela
26:02or leave the country. Is the U.S. government knowing this, or is Marco Rubio the one leading
26:10this, who is the main sponsor of Marina Corina and the far right, if we want to call it like this?
26:17And the president talked about nexus. What can you tell us about this topic of nexus,
26:25of these small groups of two, three people that gather? How is that going,
26:32if it is part of this dismantling that you are carrying out?
26:35First, the warning issued by the United States, this comes from years back. What they do is that
26:44they renew it every year, but it brings to question that at the moment, at the heightened
26:53point of investigations in October, a numerous group of people were detained here in Venezuela.
27:02U.S. citizens were detained here. Some of them, we've delivered them to the U.S. government. Some
27:08continue to be detained here. We have not stopped. It's just that they have stopped
27:17coming. U.S. mercenaries and terrorists, they have stopped arriving. So we believe that this
27:26has to do that at the border, we're doing the necessary corrections for the entries to Venezuela,
27:35that they provide their citizen alert. This moment, it's just a renewal for us. In reality,
27:44it has no impact. That's an issue for them over there.
27:48But it always raises our attention, because every time that they do this,
27:56violence comes after in Venezuela. It's like if they had a fortune teller to know
28:06what will happen. Don't go over there. What do you know?
28:14Then from the States, Mr. Marco Rubio is an enemy of Venezuela.
28:21He's an enemy of Venezuelan migrants.
28:27He's an enemy that he himself has declared as the enemy of Venezuela. He has no reason to be an
28:32enemy of Venezuelans. He was elected over there in the States as a senator for Florida, and then
28:41he launched a campaign of attack against migrants. He has led that. He's being protested
28:48against in Florida, anywhere he goes. For his mistaken policy against Venezuela, he has taken
28:54a harder tone, and he uses mechanisms of any nature to attack through lies, especially lies.
29:11Then he uses them over and over. For example, terrorist groups,
29:17those are all recycled lies, drug trafficking, a recycled lie.
29:29I invite you all to check in what country of America is a hard blow to drug trafficking being
29:39made, as it is being made here in Venezuela. Where was it going at the end? In the United
29:46States, they were waiting for the shipment. They are the biggest consumer of drugs.
29:57If there is a link, of course, because there's a direct link with Marina Corina Machado.
30:04They don't hide it. When they're complying with the orders of those that were elected,
30:10they don't hide it. But the main principle of the United States is that they don't abide
30:17by the orders of those that elected them, but by the orders of those that pay for the campaign.
30:23And the second question was about the nexus, the small groups.
30:31These were made, and for them, they have turned into a knot.
30:36They went straight, because we must remember where we come from.
30:41An organization that has today a terrible connotation, and we call them small comandos,
30:48comanditos. My friends in Zulia, these comanditos, we know perfectly in the communities
31:01in the communities that they were the ones that created violence on July 28th,
31:07and they tried to do something new. It's a terrorist group.
31:15They are all terrorist groups.
31:20And parts of the conversations that we can find on the phone of the Albanian citizens
31:26has to do with this, with the links. Part of the information that
31:31was being delivered of the streets and the communities has to do with this.
31:46We are acting in accordance with the constitution and the law, with full respect of human rights
31:54of those detained, but with the strength to guarantee peace of all Venezuelans.
32:03And we won't waver from that mission. No one will make us falter in that mission. Thank you.
32:10A quick question on why you were announcing this subject of the flights from Colombia.
32:27You said that they can be suspended starting from right now, immediately.
32:34And will that suspension last beyond Sunday? Certainly. Because, I'm sorry that I interrupt
32:40you, because the plans, their plans is not only until the May 25th, because in their sick mind,
32:49they want to create a continued situation of violence. We know that they cannot hold for half
32:55a day, because immediately they disperse. But in their planning, what we have found,
33:02they are not only talking of May 25th or 26th, they are going beyond.
33:08Afterwards, you say there are 17 foreigners that are detained, new detained, detainees,
33:14in the framework of these investigations. You spoke of us, you spoke of one in particular. Can you
33:21tell us of other nationalities that have been detained? I can name you Colombians, Mexican
33:28and Ukrainians here in Venezuela.
33:35And lastly, in the narrative of the opposition sector close to Marina Colina Machado,
33:44there are actions that can come in the next days. They are asking their people to be attentive,
33:49is what you were commenting at the beginning. Is this link to what happened in the Argentine
33:56embassy, the exit of Venezuela? They put it on the same narrative as one single fact.
34:03How can we read, how do you read this? Well, we read it as they say it,
34:09signals, because they speak a lot. It's a characteristic that they speak a lot.
34:16Since they are so smart, and they believe themselves to be so smart, they say something
34:20here, something over there. And someone that has a map of what they have said,
34:26of what they have done, of what they are saying right now, it's very easy
34:32to connect the dots. It's extremely easy, because mostly it's always the same people
34:38that come out and brag and talk beforehand. How many times has Marina Machado said that
34:46the government is weaker than ever? I said recently how many times she has said that,
34:57and then we found the connection. How many times have CIMO novice have said that he's going to
35:04come to Venezuela, that they have contacts and they know what is going to happen in Venezuela?
35:09How many times have they said it? It's very easy. They are software that you can put the
35:16information and it gives you a prediction, of course. They imagine that we are not able to
35:24do this because we don't have, according to them, the ability. We are not smart enough to do this,
35:30because they are the smartest of all. Hopefully, they continue to underestimate us,
35:37because I believe that the greatest guarantee of the defeat of the Venezuelan opposition,
35:43of this extremist, stupid opposition, is when they underestimate us. How many times have they
35:51underestimated the President of the Republic? How many times have they underestimated our Bolivarian
35:56Armed Forces? How many times have they underestimated our police forces? How many times?
36:02And we, we warn them almost what we're doing so that they stop doing what they are doing.
36:10The operation is underway.
36:20While we are talking right now here, we are knocking on doors, right now,
36:25because we are compelled to guarantee peace and tranquility in Venezuela for the Venezuelan people.
36:35You can check the networks, the media, things from five, four years, four days ago. They began
36:43to recycle messages from four or five years ago, and they're putting it now as if it was new to try
36:51to give themselves courage, because they are despaired. That's where they come from,
36:58from despair, from desperation and craziness. And when people despair 99% of times, they
37:05make mistakes, and they are left vulnerable. And that's where our operation thrives.
37:20Then they will, they will begin saying that they're activists, human rights NGO,
37:26untouchable, the untouchable NGOs. How can you do this? How, how might you think
37:32that someone in an NGO conspires because they have never been and they will never be one?
37:40For years, they have been receiving money from USAID,
37:45from the money that they have stolen from us, to finance conspiracy in Venezuela,
37:51but nothing will stop us. And we will guarantee the national government, the republic on the
37:56streets, we will guarantee that on May 25th, our people will go in peace to vote. And at night,
38:04we'll have the results. As always, we are taking all the precautions in all areas.
38:10Results will be provided and Venezuela will have its peace guaranteed.
38:22We cannot depend on luck alone. We have to act to make things happen.
38:27That's why, that's why we're going to continue working.