00:00President Nicolás Maduro urged the Attorney General's office to investigate a video released
00:04by Colombian parliamentary groups in which they claim the far-right contacted them to
00:09promote destabilizing plans for the presidential elections. The national president received news
00:14about an accusation made by a Colombian armed group where they claimed that they were contacted
00:19by the Venezuelan far-right to carry out a plan to destabilize the government of President Nicolás
00:24Maduro on the day of the presidential elections. The video details that the Venezuelan far-right
00:28was seeking to attack the border areas with the support of parliamentary groups
00:33after attacking the country's electricity system.
00:43They send it to me from Colombia. He says they denounce this is a parliamentary group there.
00:50Colombia is looking for peace now with President Petro.
00:59With armed groups of the left, with armed groups of the right. This is a group of the right
01:07paramilitary, and they denounce that they were contacted by people of the Venezuelan ultra-right.
01:21To send some thousand men to generate violence in the border states,
01:26attack the electric service, and when they shout fraud on July 28th,
01:31enter to generate the sensation of a civil war inside Venezuela.
01:39In this context, President Maduro warned that Venezuela is in a struggle for its
01:43right to peace while stating that he would not allow anyone to affect the country.
01:48And here is the video that will surely be known. We are going to be pendant,
01:58so that is acknowledged in the news, and our people know that we are in battle for the right
02:06to peace. The right to peace. And nobody is going to spoil Venezuela, I assure you.
02:18The Venezuelan president made the accusations after the Colombian parliamentary group known as
02:23Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra disclosed that the Venezuelan far-right
02:28seeks to destabilize Venezuelan society. Members of the parliamentary group said that among the
02:33requests made by the far-right was to target the power grid in order to create discomfort
02:38to the Venezuelan people. He also said members of the far-right asked them to infiltrate the streets,
02:43generating chaos in case President Maduro were to be re-elected next July 28th. The
02:48parliamentary group expressed its willingness to cooperate and contact Venezuelan diplomats
02:52to provide them with further details about the far-right's destabilization plans.
03:03Fourth of July 2024, the Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra allowed us to
03:09inform the national and international public opinion that UNESCO and the Department of La
03:14Guajira have been contacted by extreme right groups in Venezuela to destabilize the government
03:20of the Republic of Venezuela. The interlocutors have made all kinds of requests, among them
03:26to attack the Venezuelan electrical infrastructure, act against the candidate president,
03:30Nicolás Maduro, act in case he is re-elected, infiltrating protests and generating in the
03:37streets in front of this chaos. We allow ourselves to state that our organization does not get involved
03:44in the internal affairs of other countries, that our organization is due and has a purpose to
03:50maintain order in the Sierra Nevada, that we will contact the diplomatic authorities of Venezuela
03:55to disclose details of the information disclosed attentively,
03:59Major State Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra.
04:02Major Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra.
04:05The Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra Nevada is a Colombian paramilitary structure
04:10that maintains territorial control in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in the Department of
04:14Magdalena and other nearby areas. In a historical context, the criminal diaspora is a result of the
04:20demobilization of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia. This group runs drug trafficking and
04:25extortion networks in tourist areas. The ACSN operates autonomously in their logistical activities
04:31and in some cases have established alliances with criminal organizations to guarantee control
04:35over areas of route and transport of illicit substances to countries such as the United States
04:40and Europe. Recently, there have been cases of capture and participation of ACSN members,
04:46demonstrating their continued involvement in illegal economies. However, in recent times,
04:50the organization has shown a willingness to negotiate with the Colombian government,
04:54declaring a unilateral ceasefire in the hope of installing dialogues.
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