00:00Trinidad and Tobago's Ministry of Defense says it has initiated a comprehensive investigation into claims made by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro that a group of armed terrorists were captured attempting to enter Venezuela from Trinidad.
00:15Yesterday, we captured a group of terrorists attempting to enter the eastern part of the country from Trinidad and Tobago with a shipment of weapons of war, half of whom were Colombian sicarios, brought across to the Caribbean Sea to enter.
00:36President Maduro did not say how many persons were captured on Monday. Neither did he indicate the nationality of the other men.
00:44However, the Ministry of Defense says preliminary findings indicate that there is no evidence to support the allegations made by Maduro.
00:53Despite this, the Ministry says it is taking immediate and decisive steps to address the matter with the utmost seriousness and urgency,
01:02and is working in close coordination with law enforcement agencies and security forces to enhance surveillance and reinforce border security in critical areas.
01:12The Ministry is to engage its Venezuelan counterparts through the appropriate diplomatic channels to gather information that could assist in this matter.
01:21The Venezuelan president was speaking at the swearing-in of the governor of Sucre State, Joana Carrillo, on Tuesday.
01:28He warned his fellow countrymen to keep their eyes and ears on high alert in the face of what he called terrorist attacks from the far right,
01:36since he was re-elected president in January.
01:39What did they do first four months of the year?
01:48Attack the economy, prepare terrorist attacks, but we neutralized with the capture of the most important leaders of the terrorist groups.
01:57A thousand eyes, a thousand eyes, a thousand ears, because the terrorists have not been able to do it, nor will they be able to.
02:09But in a show of strength, Maduro vowed that the terrorists will never succeed, as he swore to bring peace and stability to Venezuela.
02:18We will fight block by block, street by street, city by city, so that peace continues to be consolidated in Venezuela as a popular right, national right.
02:33Renasa Cutting, TV6 News.
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