The government has committed to providing diplomatic protection At Two Spaniards detained in Venezuela accused of being part of an alleged US-led operation to assassinate Nicolas Maduro. They are also demanding that the Maduro regime be able to identify them.
“We have requested by verbal note to know and to be able to see the identity of these people, to be able to see them obviously, to be informed of the charges against us and above all we are going to exercise the diplomatic and consular protection that we always do against any Spanish person detained in any country,” commented the government spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares confirmed that he had transferred “to the Venezuelan Foreign Minister the obligation of Tell us where they are and what the charges are.”
“Spain will exercise diplomatic and consular protection towards these Spaniards as we have always done with any detained Spaniard,” assured the minister.
Thus, Albares denied that the Spaniards had “any link with any Spanish public organization, and much less with the CNI,” as the regime of Nicolas Maduro claimed.
Who are the two Spaniards detained in Venezuela?
José María Basoa Baldovino and Andrés Martínez Adasme, aged 35 and 32 respectively, are the two Spaniards detained in Venezuela accused of plotting to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro. Both lived in Zarautz, Gipuzkoa, and had been missing since the beginning of the month.
His family reported him missing on September 9.. In a statement shared on social media, they said they were last seen on September 2 in Inírida, Colombia, en route to Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela. “Both were traveling without a guide and we have not had any news since their last phone connection that day at 08:23,” the message read.
The two young people flew on August 17 from Madrid to Caracas, then traveled to Colombia, passing through the port of Ayacucho. Two days later, they informed their families that they were taking the boat to return to Venezuela. That same day, they should have returned a rental car, but they did not.
The hotelier and guide who accompanied them, Mauricio Bernal, says that the last time he saw them “They took the boat that would take them to Venezuela“.
