Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello in his television program Con El Mazo Dando. Photo: Primicias Venezuela.
Venezuelan minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, presented evidence of the coup plot involving opposition leader Enrique Márquez, who has already been arrested.
“There are no saints here, and even less so if there is money involved. In this opposition everything is contaminated, absolutely everything,” said Cabello, the first vice-president of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), during his program Con El Mazo Dando on Wednesday, January 8.
The minister also confirmed Márquez’s close friendship with US-linked Juan Barreto and lawyer María Alejandra Díaz, as well as with Rafael Tudares, son-in-law of the far-right opposition’s former presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia. “Among the things revealed about this gentleman [Enrique Márquez], he is found to be linked with the FBI and with Edmundo’s son-in-law,” he mentioned.
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According to the minister, Marquez’s computer contained a statement addressed to several people, with a proposal for Edmundo González to be sworn in on January 10. In the text, “he proposes that González be sworn in before an assembly of citizens in a Venezuelan embassy abroad, such as that in the United States or in Peru,” Cabello revealed.
Among the addressees are Abdón Vivas Terán, José Rodríguez Iturbe, Asdrúbal Aguiar, Andrés Caldera, Humberto Calderón Berti, Antonio Ledezma, Rodrigo Rivera, Eduardo Carrillo, César Pérez Vivas, Carlos Alaimo, and Max Guerra.
Meanwhile, the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), which in recent years has increasingly aligned itself with the opposition, condemned the detention of Márquez and demanded his immediate release.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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