The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab provides statements on a plan to threaten the national security and boycott the upcoming election of July 28th. The Colombian paramilitary group 'Self-Defense Conquerors of the Sierra' revealed through communiqués that the extreme far-right came into contact with them to destabilize the government of Venezuela. The Attorney General’s Office is currently investigating this conspiracy plots. teleSUR
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00:00We go live to Venezuela, where the Attorney General of the Bolivarian Republic, Tarek
00:08William Saab, is currently giving statements to the press.
00:12Let's see.
00:13And you know what I refer to has to do with a new, brutal, and terrifying episode of a
00:37continuous drama that started in May of 2023 until today.
00:48It's been escalating in a serious degree because what we are going to show today as
01:00Venezuela has to do with a request we have made formally to the Prosecutor's Office
01:10in Colombia, and we will have the communication afterwards, so that in this case, conspiracy
01:20of an attempt of assassination of threats to the President of the Republic to look for
01:27to boycott in the upcoming or during the electoral process on July the 28th, nothing
01:38more or less the presidential elections, to look to do away through terrorism the peace
01:46that so much we have endeavored to find.
01:52This is a new attempt to destabilize a terrorist effort.
01:58We have opened an investigation, formal investigation we have started, efforts to start a communique
02:10that was dated on July the 4th issued by a group of paramilitary group of Colombia
02:22in which it denounced that they were contacted by groups of far-right groups from Venezuela.
02:30We are, and I would like to tell you today and yesterday, we have contacted that I cannot
02:37reveal at this moment in Colombia where we have been supplying us information linked
02:48to this investigation that can lead us to concrete in the few hours, the future hours
02:56to know for certain the names of these people that have looked this group, terrorist group
03:05as the self-defense Sierra, the group of paramilitary from Colombia which at the same
03:16time these people outside the law because these people are all the time, they don't
03:24get tired to follow a neo-Nazi policy to destabilize the country.
03:29They have requested to work in the territory of Venezuela to destabilize the country in
03:36the process of electoral process.
03:38In this statement, this irregular group informed that these people, at least two of them, they
03:45were contacted, they requested to attempt the infrastructure, the power infrastructure
03:52of Venezuela to act against the president, Nicolás Maduro, which at the same time is
03:58in the process of electoral process to act in the case, in the case he is re-elected
04:05according to the communique to infiltrate, to generate protests and generate chaos in
04:11the streets.
04:12At this request, this paramilitary group informed they would not accept to intervene in Venezuelan
04:19territory and they offered, as they were doing it, to inform the authorities of Venezuela
04:28about this or this situation.
04:31I would like to be more precise to show a video, please.
04:35Let's see the video.
04:36July the 4th, 2024, the Israel Defense of Sierra are allowed to inform the public opinion
05:05national and international public opinion that units in Saguajira were contacted by
05:12far-right groups of Venezuela to destabilize the government of the Republic of Venezuela.
05:18The people were trying to do any request among them to attempt against the power electricity
05:26structure and also against the president and candidate Nicolás Maduro to act in case he
05:32is re-elected infiltrating in protest to generate chaos in the street, also to generate
05:39manifestations and demonstrations.
05:41I would like to say that our group is not getting involved in this.
05:46Our organization is trying to keep the order in the Sierra Nevada and we will be linked
05:53to the diplomatic authorities of Venezuela to give you all the details.
05:58We, attentively, the chief of staff of the Sierra group, it's good to signal for those
06:20that don't believe that this video, this denounce, as we denounce today as prosecutor's
06:29office today, it was known widely after it was published in Colombian media and international.
06:39The news was highlighted particularly by Radio Caracol, the agents EFE, the Expectator
06:49and others.
06:51So those who are assassins with minds, those who have things to happen, so afterwards to
07:01clap and applaud and to say falsely and theatrically that allegedly this came out from Venezuelan
07:12media.
07:13No, sir, this was designed from a very delicate way Colombian media.
07:22The Venezuelan justice is working now.
07:26Let's see the second communique that was issued on the 6th of July, 40 hours afterwards,
07:33the self-defense conquerors of the Sierra issued a new statement addressed to the presidents
07:41Gustavo Petro and Nicolás Maduro in which they demand to the president of Colombia to
07:47adopt the measures, the required measures to allow this group to dialogue directly with
07:53the authorities of Venezuela to supply them with information that they have about this
07:58far-right groups that are, that have requested this to them.
08:03Please let's see those images.
08:05Good afternoon.
08:08Good afternoon.
08:27July the 6th, statement to the Mr. President of Colombia Republic Gustavo Petro and to
08:36Mr. President of the Republic Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro Moros.
08:42The chief of staff of the self-defense of conquerors of Sierra Nevada is addressing
08:47you reaffirming our willingness of peace and we are convinced that the construction of
08:53peace is the only way to achieve the desire of prosperity and tranquility that we are
09:00in doubt to the community that we have with the territory under our protection.
09:05I would like to, that everybody knows firsthand the situation that was presented with the
09:10groups from the neighboring countries.
09:13They tried to contact us to alter the democratic system and that's why we wanted to make public
09:19this communique to the public opinion about the 5th of July of 2024 through the ex-account.
09:27This is an event of big importance for the both territories which front frontiers we
09:33share without any problem.
09:38We request with respect Mr. President Petro that to adopt all the required measures so
09:45that authorities of Venezuela can have a dialogue directly with this organization to provide
09:50them with the information and so that an investigation start and the judicial act are begun.
09:58We also knew the pronouncement of Mr. President Nicolás Maduro Moros, President of the Republic
10:04Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in respect with our information and we have the obligation,
10:10the moral obligation to give it to him for the objectives he considers necessary.
10:17We consider that this peace dialogue is originated in respect with the electoral process and
10:22democracy in Venezuela so that this they can build a loyalty and the violence is stopped
10:29for the benefit of the people and for the benefit of the neighboring countries which
10:34also have the right to decide, sign the self-defense conquerors of Sierra Nevada.
11:02So looking at the seriousness of this fact, this sad fact which is part of a repetition
11:14that afterwards we will give you the chronology and it's very good to the people knows this
11:19term.
11:20This was within what is considered as a hybrid war Venezuela without any doubt has been the
11:29essay, the test land, the test ground which is very important by the superpowers of the
11:36United States to execute in Venezuela each one of those what they meant a hybrid war.
11:44This is part of what has been victim Venezuela nation and we have defeated particularly about
11:56seven years where we have a prosecutor's office with prestige, with credibility which acts
12:02rapidly and which has and which had not only outside of the country, we also have as you
12:11see this act within Venezuela.
12:14We also have done it outside of Venezuela as a response.
12:22The prosecutor's office are sending us from brother countries, from Europe, from Asia
12:27and in the framework I would like to show that already the prosecutor's office, this
12:32is a letter that we can see in the screen, the prosecutor's office have contacted with
12:37direct the prosecutor's office of Colombia, Dr. Luz Adriana Camargo, Garcin, prosecutor's
12:48office, prosecutor of Colombia.
12:52I have sent her 8th of July the statement.
12:56You can see that on the screen that says, please receive our greetings extensive to
13:07your team in the exercise of your work.
13:10I address you so that I provide you with information that the Venezuelan had knew through a paramilitary
13:20group self-defense conquerors of Sierra.
13:25They were allegedly contacted by far right groups of Venezuela to commit a crime of magnacide
13:33of assassination of the president of a republic, Nicolás Maduro Moros.
13:39In relation to this, the prosecutor's office request your valuable cooperation to allow
13:48the participation of this institution in the investigation that can be carried out in Colombian
13:55territory and also to interview alleged witnesses of this act.
14:03So that's why we request coordinate the necessary mechanism in cooperation, in crime coordination
14:10that allow this realization of this act in order to so that the responsible of this act
14:17were indicted by the justice in Venezuela.
14:21I reiterate our disposition to work together within the cooperation, the international
14:32cooperation and to contribute with the implementation of the objectives of the state to look for
14:42the human rights in our countries.
14:44Attorney General of the Republic, obviously this letter is already in the hands of the
14:54prosecutor's office in Colombia.
14:56They also have not only the knowledge but also the direct contact with myself to start
15:04to act in a very strong and decisive way against these criminals.
15:10Today I've also made contact with a link that is in the Colombian territory which who has
15:20informed us, okay, see this detail that is worth of knowing.
15:26Two months ago in La Guajira, Colombian Guajira, they contacted this group, paramilitary group.
15:36These subjects, these subversive subjects outside the law qualified as paramilitary
15:43group in Colombia of far right.
15:46They sent a first emissary that identified himself as a member of the position of the
15:52Venezuela government and contacted known leaders of this sector.
15:59Afterwards, three meetings were made in a restaurant.
16:04This was communicated to me, this emissary that is in Colombia.
16:10Three people attended these meetings, two white and one mulatto without beard and about
16:22a meter, 70 centimeters height.
16:26All there identified as participants or party of the far right of Venezuela that is inside
16:34the country and that is now in electoral campaign with this sector of a far right,
16:41opposition far right, and they were asked, this criminal group, to attempt against Nicolas
16:49Maduro in one of those act in the streets or to act against the power, the electricity
16:57power of the Suria state, especially in these last days of campaigns, and also to try to
17:04leave the majority of the country without electricity.
17:09Also this is today, what I'm revealing now was today, the same as the letter that I have
17:15mentioned that put us in a direct contact with the prosecutor's office in Colombia to
17:21lead and to go to the depth of this situation.
17:27They say that in case that the opposition loses the election, they were asked to infiltrate
17:34to cause violence because they ignored the results.
17:44Like three weeks ago, we are three weeks away from this process to end, and they are talking
17:52about ignoring the results and to start doing violent actions.
17:59They showed maps, this emissary telling me, showing the infrastructure that they would
18:06like to attack, and there are photos of the Miraflores Palace.
18:11They were offered political asylum when they took power.
18:16It was alleged that they were going to be with them in these actions.
18:21Nothing was, no salary was completed in this.
18:27So what I'm telling you now, according to the same as the direct communication that
18:31I have with the prosecutor's office in Colombia, was today, happened today, Monday.
18:37And that is why it is very delicate, the repeated, of this sector that is repeating.
18:50In the personal way, I have informed eight cases of conspiracy to solve the violence
18:58in the country that includes an attempt of magnacide against Nicolás Maduro's models.
19:04In January, one of the most dangerous was foiled, which was known as the white bracelet.
19:13Also other conspiracies were foiled.
19:16For example, the case, high conspiracy with 11 people that were arrested for infiltrating
19:24military information, classified information.
19:27The case known as Coahuilito espionage for delivering confidential information in relation
19:33to the security of the presidential.
19:37Also the case known as Fortunato espionage.
19:41One man was arrested to try to enter regularly in the country to look for information about
19:46pilots and military personnel that would lead for an agency, an intelligence agency abroad.
19:54And of course, the most important, the one that I know that I denominated, the assassin
19:59of Viñeta, in which the security president was, there's five arrested in this case.
20:14I would like to add what happened at the beginning in Balinas.
20:20This allowed us to know the new planification, the group plan, the escalation of demonstration
20:27to force, to avail somebody that are outside the law to ask for invasion, military invasion
20:37to ally itself, in this case demanding a brother relation with a party that has been responsible
20:47for the killing of Palestine in Gaza.
20:51And also he has done a lot of damaged things to the people of Venezuela.
20:56These arrest people were informed to us about the plan, that this lady was asking them to
21:05escalate in various situations and places in Venezuela, in Tachira, and also to create
21:14a chaos in January, February, and March.
21:17I would like also to inform that afterwards to this arrest, there was another arrest that
21:25took place of a subject that promoted in social media, in WhatsApp groups, and also
21:33instigated the assassination of the president of the republic, while he was in the pre-electoral
21:41campaign in the state of Monarca.
21:44For much less than this, in the United States, they killed, tried to make threats against
21:53Joe Biden and against that who said and tweeted that to Obama, that he was condemned to 60
22:02years in jail.
22:05Sometimes some people, they say that it was a simple tweet.
22:08No, this was a threat, a direct threat against the highest authority of the nation.
22:13And that's why it forms, it makes part of the crimes that have been mentioned.
22:18And fortunately, the positive things that I would like to highlight has been foiled,
22:23has been defeated of an absolute way.
22:25And we cannot ignore this new situation in which they want, while the campaign is advancing,
22:34they want to create chaos.
22:36Even they are saying that they will ignore, they say that they will ignore the results
22:43and looking for this paramilitary stuff.
22:46I have said, there's a publication, I would invite you to see, The War of the Future,
22:52The Arrival of a Hybrid Conflict.
22:54This is an article written by James Mathis and Brank Huffman, which talks about the hybrid war.
23:01The hybrid war against Venezuela is a war deployed simultaneously in different areas
23:10inside also in the outside of a country to impact the public opinion, the international
23:16public opinion.
23:17It encircles all the coordinated attentions to influence the decision-making in all states.
23:23Doing and resorting to different medias, the hybrid war, look for results to inflate and
23:34to, in the society, as through coercion, is attacked as it being effective, and it's more
23:41simple, according to these minds, to apply for people that are, for the countries that
23:48are attacking because it involves much less investment than a conventional war.
23:54It is, of course, resources like blockades are used, the shortages, the sabotage of infrastructure,
24:03the cyber attack, the psychological attack based on media, the crime, or also the paramilitarism
24:14for terrorist actions, for coordinated actions according with countries to provoke the, to
24:23isolate the country.
24:26The objective is also to confound and to mislead the population and also to solve the hatred
24:34against the government officials.
24:39Every day the government of Venezuela is receiving messages through the media, which are elaborated
24:45by laboratories.
24:46You have to be very clear in this, organized by outside of a country to create problems
24:51and to create problems inside the country.
24:54This type of war is more terrible, for me, it's more terrible than a conventional war.
24:59In a conventional war, the opponent is identified as the one that attacks, okay?
25:05You put yourself with bombs, but in the hybrid war, the enemy is diffused, is camouflaged
25:13behind the bad, the roly-coly associations, international association, communication media,
25:23enterprises, social media, cultural sectors, and even the spectacles, you know, the artists.
25:31In the case of Venezuela, all those strategies have been tested since 1999 onwards, but particularly
25:40it was strengthened after the death of President Chavez in 2013.
25:47But what is the extraordinary, what is the inedit, what is the new that the Venezuelan
25:52people has resisted, has understood the dimension of this attack against the country and its
25:59authorities and has been able to overcome and defeat those who have tried to develop
26:04this war and those who have sponsored them.
26:08Each one of these strategies, simultaneously sometimes, others in sequence, all in escalating
26:15form, seem to be simultaneous within the country at the same time that they are attacking outside
26:26and at the same time that things are happening inside the country.
26:29So through the still plunder of assets and also to try to block us from buying vaccines
26:40for the pandemic.
26:42And Venezuela was one of the countries with the least rate of death in the Western Hemisphere
26:49because it had the opportunity, together with Russia, China, and Cuba, to have these vaccines
26:57and to be able to save millions of Venezuelans.
27:00I don't want to ask for any clemency because this new plan has been revealed.
27:08We are repeating in direct contact with the prosecutor's office in Colombia.
27:13We have contact with one person that is revealing the information that I have revealed to you.
27:23And also I hope that the prosecutor's office in Colombia allow that our officials go to
27:31Colombia to develop in a joint way in the framework of international cooperation to
27:39clarify this sad action that has the rejection of all the Venezuela.
27:46Everything has been revealed.
27:47Not only is revealed, but I'll say it and I will repeat it, I will say it again.
27:53This is a far right that we know it.
27:57Personally, I saw it on April the 12th when two organisms and a group of people that were
28:08claiming public it too.
28:13At the same time, they managed to kill dozens of Venezuelans.
28:18They tried the macho side against Maduro.
28:21I cannot forget that.
28:22It's a sector that has escalated in the hatred.
28:27A very unfortunate action was the death of one person linked to the Venezuelan government
28:34as has happened with Lucenio.
28:37The Christians, the religious, the Bible, the prophetics, whatever has a religion that
28:45they actually applaud what happened.
28:54It also happened with the accident of William Lara, the governor, comrade of us.
29:03They made a party, they threw a party when that accident with a death, unfortunate death
29:09of Hugo Chavez that was this sector of far right national war.
29:17They wanted to throw a party and recently, if you allowed me, an accident of a president
29:25Desi Rodriguez, the vice president, exercising her gigantic work that she was doing, moving
29:34to a place where there was an unfortunate event, natural event.
29:39As we know, when she was there, she had an accident.
29:44We saw that these crazy people, the hatred people, instead of saying, some of them were
29:53saying like a baseball narrator said, we will have to declare, we will have to sing.
30:09The family of this person is linked in terrorist act.
30:14They have been involved in criminal acts like this and others were sought by the justice
30:20of Venezuela to claim and to ask for insurrection.
30:25So the important about this, and I end, that the people has identified clearly with names
30:32and surnames.
30:35They have known it, they know, they have seen the way they have plotted the attempt of magnicide
30:42against the life of President Nicolás Maduro.
30:48But those who were there to join in that stage in 2018, they were happy about the invasion,
30:59they were happy about that to happen.
31:00At the same time, to each defeat of the moral of the people of Venezuela grows, the civilian
31:07military unity also grows, and the solidarity grows.
31:13The justice organs of the Venezuelan will act without any doubt against those who attempt
31:22against.
31:23I have already informed about the number of arrests involved in these criminal acts, which
31:28are very, they also are rejected by the, unanimously by Venezuelan people.
31:35Thank you very much, good afternoon.
31:41We were live to Venezuela, where the Attorney General of the Bolivarian Republic, Tarek
31:45William Saab, offered statements to the press regarding the new brutal destabilization attempts
31:49by the extreme right-wing that was planning to boycott the upcoming presidential elections.
31:54During his intervention, the Attorney General assured that this is a new terrorist attempt
31:58that wanted to target the national energy system, an attempt against the life of President
32:03and candidate Nicolás Maduro.
32:05This new destabilization attempt is currently under investigation to hold the terrorist
32:09accountable.
32:10This is all for the moment, more information in upcoming news briefs, and stay tuned with
32:14From the South.