Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused “terrorists” to the two detained Spaniards, linked to the National Intelligence Center (CNI) of Spain, for his alleged link to a destabilizing operation against his government.
In his weekly show “Con Maduro +”, broadcast on state channel VTV, the head of state said that the Two citizens of the European country are “undercover agents” of the CNI, and rejected the parents’ statements Spaniards who were in Venezuela as tourists, after visiting Colombia.
Maduro argued that the two Spaniards “They were captured and they are condemnedconfessed and with full proof of the actions they carried out inside Venezuela to assassinate people, place bombs“Now it turns out that they were good guys, tourists, who were walking and were captured,” said Maduro, who quipped: without presenting any evidence, that “it draws a lot of attention” to the fact that “the Spanish CNI is entering into operation against Venezuela.”
For his part, Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said that the CNI, although it is attached to the Spanish Ministry of Defense, is a “completely autonomous entity” which “conducts operations worldwide in accordance with instructions given by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency).”
Accusations denied by Spain
The subjects are Andrés Martínez Adasme and José María Basoa Valdovinos, aged 32 and 35 respectively, captured in Puerto Ayacucho, in the state of Amazonas (south), on whose phones, according to the Venezuelan government, the authorities found where the conversations were located. asked “How do they buy explosives?” and “contact groups that would like to do special work.”
The Spanish Foreign Ministry has already denied that Spain is involved in a “political destabilization operation” in Venezuela and has “categorically rejected any suggestion” in this regard, after the Venezuelan government claimed that Spain “was going to provide mercenaries” for an alleged operation. Led by the United States.
He also denied that the two detainees are part of the Spanish CNI, as the Venezuelan government claims, nor that they belong to any other state organization. According to their families, the two They were in Venezuela as tourists. Last Monday, September 9, and after losing their trace, they reported their disappearance on social networks and to the Police.
