The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation has rejected “purely” that Spain is involved in a “smuggling operation” political destabilization of Venezuela” and said that the two Spaniards detained by Maduro’s drug dictatorship were not linked to the CNI or any state organization.
“Spain denies and categorically rejects any suggestion of involvement in an operation of political destabilization in Venezuela,” said official sources from the ministry headed by José Manuel Albares.
This statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs comes a few hours after Venezuela announced the arrest of two Spanish citizens, José María Basoa Valdovinos and Andrés Martínez Adasmefor having alleged links with the National Intelligence Center (CNI) and with figures close to the Venezuelan opposition who are allegedly preparing a plan to assassinate the leader of the Chavista regime.
The same Foreign Affairs sources indicated that “the Government has verified that the two detained men are not part of the CNI or any other state organization.” In addition, they added that “Spain defends a democratic and peaceful solution to the situation in Venezuela.”
Detained in Venezuela
Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello reported that the Maduro regime had arrested 14 people who were participating in a “destabilization operation” that linked Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Spanish CNI.
“The prisoners They are talking about an operation with mercenaries, to bring them to Venezuela, with very clear objectives: to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro. “They have contacted French and Eastern European mercenaries and are participating in an operation to try to attack our country,” Cabello said.
Families of detained Spaniards presented a complaint for his disappearance before the Ertzaintza last September 9thThis was confirmed by the Basque Department of Security, which indicated that after several efforts, the Basque Police were able to confirm that they had been arrested in Venezuela.
Relatives of the two missing persons also alerted on September 9, via social networks, that the missing persons had been seen for the last time in Inírida, Colombia, on Monday, September 2, heading towards Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela. As they detailed, both were traveling without a guide and they had not heard from each other since their last telephone communication, which occurred the same day.
The two Basques took a flight from Madrid to Caracas on August 17, where they rented a vehicle that they were supposed to return on September 5, which they did not do. On August 31, they would have left by boat from Puerto Ayacucho to Colombia and this Sunday they would have had to take a flight back to Madrid.
