The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Madurohas called “terrorists” José María Basoa Valdovinos and Andrés Martínez Adasme, the Spaniards detained for their alleged links with the Venezuelan opposition, whom he accuses of having prepared a plan to assassinate the president, and assured that they were “Infiltrated” agents of the Spanish National Intelligence Center (CNI).
Maduro said that these “terrorists”, who according to his relatives were tourists, “in their libertarian era, planted bombs”: “It is a new type of tourism: adventure tourism. They come to plant bombs and kill people here. “Explosive tourism,” he said ironically in his speech on the “Con Maduro+” program.
Similarly, he stated that “The captured persons are found guilty and confessed“and that the “evidence” presented does not represent “even ten percent of the complete evidence that is already in the hands of the justice bodies” and “involves peaceful tourists” of “several” European nationalities “who came to plant bombs and kill.
Accuses Spanish press of ‘victimizing murderers’
The president assured that “the hegemonic media of the Spanish right” have tried to “victimize murderers, terrorists, perpetrators“Now it turns out that they were nice people, tourists who were walking around and who were captured by the Venezuelan dictatorship and disappeared,” he said.
Maduro further stated that “Their families or friends, nor the CNI and the Spanish government, will leave.“say they are agents and hand them over. In addition to Basoa and Martinez, three Americans were also arrested, including a sailor and a Czech citizen, and 400 American rifles were seized.
For his part, the Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello, indicated that the CNI is attached to the Ministry of Defense but it is “a completely autonomous entity of the Spanish government” and which “depends on the CIA”, carrying out “operations throughout the world in accordance with instructions” from Washington.
Criticism of Minister Robles
Cabello, who said he had made a “significant weapons seizure,” took the opportunity to criticize Defense Minister Margarita Robles, who recently called the Maduro government a “dictatorship,” sparking a recent diplomatic crisis.Robles attacked Venezuela in an act that was the baptism of a bookwhich has nothing to do with it, and decides to confront Venezuela. “She knew what was going on,” he said.
Following the arrests of the Basque citizens, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation has requested that Caracas “official and verified” informationas well as a “clarification of the accusations” against them. The Spanish government denied that the two belong to the Spanish intelligence services and specified that the embassy had sent a note verbale to the Venezuelan government “requesting access to the detainees.”
The relatives of the detainees, originally from Bilbao, filed a complaint with the Ertzaintza to report their disappearance on September 9. As confirmed by the Basque Department of Security, Relatives warned of the situation generated by the Basque Police, which took measures and was able to confirm that both were being held in Venezuela, a circumstance of which their families have been informed.
