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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Venezuela says it has arrested 6 foreigners allegedly involved in plot to kill Maduro
By MANUEL RUEDA BOGOTA, Colombia©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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lincolnman
Sure, and tomorrow they'll all be accused of stealing and eating pets...
Maduro must have gotten his hands on a copy of Project 2025's coup manual...
Bellflower
Everyone know the American government tried unsuccessfully many times to assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro.
Many people in Venezuela believe the US was behind the early death of Hugo Chavez.
The US government blatantly interfered in the elections in Venezuela and failed.
The US government wants Venezuela to be its vassal state.
Bellflower
Search for "CIA assassination attempts".
It became such public knowledge that in 1976 President Ford signed an executive order forbidding it.
Also search "Church Committee".
Of course that doesn't mean they have really stopped. There is a "lack of transparency" in the workings of the US government and the CIA.
elephant200
Good job, Venezuela belongs to hero like Maduro. The American 's Monroe doctrine has no validity in 21st century anymore. With China's support, Venezuela is defiance !
RichardPearce
Seeing as the American version of a 'political solution' to a South American country having the bad taste of electing leftists as Presidents include assassinations, coup's and naming someone else the winner despite the 'claims' of election 'irregularities' having been scrupulously investigated and debunked (including the previous election of a President Maduro, and the two elections of Chavez) the State Department announcement could be confirmation of this having been an intercepted hit team unofficially contracted by the American government.
Underworld
RichardPearce
This is just factual. Maduro didn't win the election.
Primusinter
What is "just factual"???
Where is Guaido now? Everyone has already forgotten about this chosen one of the Venezuelan people :) And another immodest question: where is Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the "favorite" of the Belarusian people, who defeated Alexander Lukashenko in the last elections? You found a wet chicken from the street and she won too! Where are these people who "won"?
TaiwanIsNotChina
Maduro will be held accountable for how he treats US citizens. The US doesn't need to do deep cover, particularly against a meaningless dictatorship like Venezuela.
John
Just 6?
TaiwanIsNotChina
Safe from the animals trying to kill them. Just because people don't have the patience to listen to opposition leaders in exile, doesn't mean they didn't do more with their life then most people.
Hello Kitty 321
@Bellflower
So I suppose you want us to believe that Bin Laden died of surprise when a bunch of Americans came around for tea one day.
Hello Kitty 321
@ Underworld
It brings us back to the question posed on this site two days ago: "How concerned are you that some of the news you are reading online might be disinformation?" You believe American propaganda, others choose not to. Who is to say which is true, although we do know that the U.S. has been trying to overthrow the government of Venezuela ever since their coup attempt against Chavez failed.
Primusinter
TaiwanIsNotChinaToday 02:04 pm JST
Again you carry nonsense. These two don't pose any danger. No one was going to and is not going to kill them. They have already been forgotten. According to your idea, they should have continued the struggle for power at least from abroad. But they have never aspired to power, so they are sitting somewhere in the "swamp", and now you have to pay for their utilities. By the way, the photo of Guaido at the American airport was in the press recently. Yulia Navalnaya also did not meet your expectations. Where is she now? Do some animals want to kill her too? Are they hippos or bears?
patkim
Maduro winning fairly is like Putin winning fairly. It just doesn't happen. And if Trump had his way, the elections in the U.S. would be run like so-called "elections" in those countries. Fortunately, the democratic system in the U.S. works because there is enough honesty and diligence to make it work. Dictators and autocrats shouldn't think an election only works when they win.
Underworld
Hello Kitty 321
If it comes from a reputable MSM, then it's reliable.
Proof?
PTownsend
Venezuela's riling caste led by Maduro will have to share large potions of what Maduro, the kleptocrat, has skimmed from Venezuela's natural resources, so China can keep burning ever larger amounts of fossil fuels. Maduro has learned from fellow dictators like Putin, who's also involved in Venezuelan politics, how to get richer while his subject citizens get poorer and try to flee to North America.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Even 95% of Latin America says the election was a sham and they are no American puppets.
TaiwanIsNotChina
They pose a danger to the corrupt regimes but not as long as they can censor their way out of the problem. Won't be forever.
Bellflower
Venezuela's minister, Cabello, presented much more information which can be found at teleSur. This was an attempt at a coup including assassinations and takeovers of key locations.
Over 400 rifles were confiscated. And where were they transported from? From Florida. Cabello said that the FBI actually inspected the site prior to the weapons being sent into Venezuela.
There is another very important thing to understand. This coup attempt was organized PRIOR to the election. That means that the US government did not expect its favored candidate to win. That means that the tremendous amount of hostile US media reports falsely claiming problems with the election were in fact a key part of the coup preparations.
Cephus
"Venezuela says it has arrested 6 foreigners allegedly involved in plot to kill Maduro."
It's always great to keep your nose from other people's business. Venezuela is for Venezuelans, their country their riches or their problems.
Primusinter
Telegram post from September 10
"Against the background of the presidential elections held in Venezuela and unrecognized by the United States, Eric Prince, the creator of the Blackwater private army, published on his website a countdown timer for a week and a provocative message.
The message reads: "VENEZUELA IS ABOUT TO CHANGE ITS COURSE. In a very short time, you will be able to witness and participate in a movement that will fulfill the will of the Venezuelan people. The game of the mode is over: this time everything will be different..."
Venezuela este a punto de cambiar su rumbo....
Failed! Hasta la vista
Nibek32
Maduro tried to change the results of an election he clearly lost, just like trump. They are both compulsive liars and will do and say anything to retain power. This is just pure propaganda.
WoodyLee
Nah, the CIA will never do that.
Why would they when the Venezuelan's could??
Primusinter
It's really funny to read you, if to be honest :) Senile marasmus and dishonesty are now in trand. Has your president never lied? Has giggly Kamala never lied yet??? Really?
fallaffel
Unlikely. There's no need for the US or other country to assassinate this embarrassment of a "president". He's no threat to anyone but his own people. I knew many Venezuelans who fled to the US when Chavez (similar to after Castro took power). There are hundreds of thousands of them.
Pukey2
Well, what a surprise. History and experience tells us it's most likely CIA through NED funding.
US government: every accusation is a confession.
RichardPearce
Little question to the people insisting that it is 'impossible' for Maduro and Putin to have won their elections, when Trump insists it was impossible for Harris to have won, what possible reason will prevent you from believing him?
Because it sure won't be a lack of evidence, or a history of him pulling the same thing previously and his claims being debunked?
Can you articulate a reason, or is it something you don't want to admit to?
John-San
Can someone tell me the last time the USA has had a win or even back a winner. LOL. History as tell me for example the last and properly will be their last lost , backing Israel who are losing and will loss, Backing NATO war against Russia are losing a will loose. Syria Lost, Iraq a loss and an embarrassment, Afghanistan that no country as ever beaten again the USA cop a Lost and Billions in war equipment. That is the just losses in the 2020,s I won,t continues with the other decades of losses. But some how they will spin it to their voting public as wins and they being proud follows of Fox and CCN will believe they all were wins.
starpunk
We must remember that Diaper Don blubbered about sending US forces to Venezuela a few years ago. And in 2020 there were some American filibusters that tried to overthrow Maduro and failed. They're in prison now. Had they succeeded, TrashTrump would've strutted his butt in 'triumph' like the egomaniac that he is. After all, 2020 was an election year (and he failed and LOST), just like that secret coup attempt. Then on J6 he openly and explicitly tried the same stunt on the USA because he is a LOSER, in elections, business and in life itself.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Well, yeah, if you live in a fact free world or are anti-American, you can claim everything spouted by the Chomskyist is true.
TaiwanIsNotChina
You have to go to war to lose a war. American influence still covers everywhere it did in 2000 and the US didn't faceplant it's way losing a conventional war against a country a third its size.
TaiwanIsNotChina
With six people, eh? One superhero for each location?
100 rifles per person? Sounds like a plan.
The Maduro self-coup is unrecognized by everyone that matters.
JJE
This has Bay of Pigs written all over it. Same offenders, same motive.
TaiwanIsNotChina
My question would be where are the other 1494 troops? CIA must have gone really low budget with this one.
JJE
US has not been involved in a fair conventional war with anyone for a long time. Pentagon prefers to pick on, and bully smaller, defenseless countries.
They were planning prison breaks and sending controversial people back. That's where the other 1494 others are. Low budget and shame.
TaiwanIsNotChina
We also don't do invasions of free people like Russia.
They must have the deepest of deep covers and cloaking devices.
RichardPearce
I notice none of the 'the Venezuelan election was rigged' believers can articulate a reason they didn't believe Trump's claim that the American election was rigged and won't believe him if he repeats the claim for this year's election because they can't find a rational one they are not ignoring to believe the claims that the Venezuelan election was rigged.
stormcrow
Trump probably loves this guy.
They’re both cut from the same cloth.
quercetum
America has subverted and sabotaged and strangled democracies all around the world. They've been interfering and tampering with rigging elections across the globe from Haiti to Honduras, from Italy to Iran, from Syria to South Africa. They've toppled governments, assassinated elected officials, fixed elections, bribed and bullied and bulldozed democracies on every continent for a century.
It’s not only in smaller Latin American countries. They do it in their on country.
quercetum
Authoritarian control comes in many forms. It can be a political party or one person. It can be through rogue entities or industries.
In my opinion, the oligarchical elite don't believe that a population in any country in the world can be trusted to elect leaders who will safeguard the interest of the elite in America, and so what makes Americans think they're going to trust Americans with that power?
They rig elections and install whoever they want in country after country. But somehow Americans don’t think that they're going to do that in their country. How naive can one be?
TaiwanIsNotChina
Such current leaders as...
TaiwanIsNotChina
When you are fighting a corrupt ideology like Xi Jinping Thought, you have to be everywhere. It is China backing regime change in Ukraine today.
John-San
Tai: Name that war they won, and don,t say 2nd world war because that was a combine effort. As in first world war they were late to the party and took the glory.
TaiwanIsNotChina
But enough about Russia, who lost Afghanistan and Ukraine wars since WW2.
John-San
Who lost to the Afganistan?? the USA and the Soviets. As for Ukraine you must have your head buried deep in the Corporate Media to assume Russia is losing.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Yeah just pretend Russia wasn't the main force behind the Soviets. And Russia will never take Kyiv, so it will just be a more unified and enlarged NATO compared to a few scraps of land for Russia. Your military "glory" is pathetic.