Far-right Argentinian President Javier Milei and his Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, during a presidential campaign rally in 2023. Photo: Matias Baglietto/Reuters/File photo.
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—The foreign affairs minister of Venezuela, Yván Gil, has condemned the intentions of the Argentinian government of Javier Milei to carry out a terrorist attack in Venezuela. Gil reported that Argentinian President Javier Milei and his minister of security, Patricia Bullrich, were behind an attempt to introduce violent operators into Venezuela.
“The mad people who govern Argentina, the political monstrosity of Milei and Patricia Bullrich, were discovered red-handed in their attempt to introduce violent elements into Venezuela,” Gil wrote on social media this Wednesday, December 18, stating that they had made “a serious mistake” and had left behind countless pieces of evidence that implicated them in the terrorist plot.
In the post, the Venezuelan foreign minister mentioned that an Argentinian police officer, named Nahuel Agustín Gallo, was arrested in Venezuela for being part of a destabilization plan, and that he is being prosecuted in full accordance for with the rule of law and justice of Venezuela. The minister asked the Argentinian far-right authorities to abandon their desperation and accept the consequences of their behavior that shames the people of their country.
On Monday, December 16, Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello reported that the detained Argentinian citizen was a police officer of Argentina and had come to Venezuela carry out a terrorist mission, which was neutralized by Venezuelan law enforcment agencies. The Argentinian used the false claim that he had come to the country to meet his wife, but this was established to be a lie.
“The Argentinian Foreign Ministry was involved because he came to carry out a mission on their behalf,” Cabello said. “This does not mean that the operation was aborted, no, but we have dealt it a significant blow thanks to the law enforcment agencies.”
Also on Monday, Argentinian Security Minister Bullrich confirmed that on Saturday, December 14, Agustín Gallo was detained in Venezuela on charges of espionage when he was visiting his family. The minister said that he is “at an intelligence base in Táchira” and added that “we are all working together so that this does not become a casus belli” but instead has “a happy ending.”
“We know where he is. He is at an intelligence base in Táchira. They summoned his wife’s mother, but for security reasons she did not show up. She is a lawyer,” Bullrich told Radio Mitre, exhibiting profound knowledge of the details of an apparently recent case.
The Argentinian minister also stated that “the police” and “the Ministry of Security have just filed a criminal complaint for this abduction” of a person “who had gone as an Argentinian citizen, not as a member of the police, to meet his wife who had had to return [to Venezuela] seven months ago for a family matter, because her mother was ill.”
Últimas Noticias reported that on Wednesday night, Minister Cabello covered the facts in his program Con el Mazo Dando, reporting that the detained Argentinian agent detained was involved in a conspiracy against Venezuela, adding that he is a special agent of the Argentinian intelligence services and his mission was to go undercover in the country, make contact with the fugitive from the Venezuelan justice system, Iván Simonovis, “and then carry out an operation to get out the leaders of Vente Venezuela holed up in the Argentinian embassy in Caracas.”
Sources informed that the operation was to be carried out between December 23 and December 25, together with “some paramilitaries who were to arrive in the country via an [illegal] path on the border with Cúcuta [Colombia] this weekend.”
Cabello confirmed that there is a “set-up” operation in Venezuela and that the Argentinian official supposedly came to the country to see his wife, but that in reality “his wife is in Argentina.”
“The story does not add up, but what does add up is a terrorist plan against the country with foreign mercenaries,” Cabello said. “That does add up, everything is very clear, with the arrest of many of them and the search for others. The first hints of this plot referred to mercenaries from Argentina or Uruguay. Then, the Spanish CNI [National Intelligence Centre] got involved with its mercenaries. We captured several of them, and they have not said anything else since then, because they know that what we have said is true.”
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RT reports on plot from Ecuador
According to sources reporting to RT, the US and Ecuadorian governments are reportedly conspiring to carry out a coup in Venezuela. The information details how US intelligence services are recruiting Venezuelans who are in Ecuador and training them to then carry out destabilizing actions.
The Russian news outlet’s sources also confirmed that the search for potential terrorists is being carried out through social media with the participation of local operators, and a Quito café serves as a recruiting place. Allegedly, the local coordinator in Quito is an agent nicknamed Alejandro Rojas Colim—a name that sounds like it is inspired by that of a character in a video game—and the recruits are further equipped in Colombian territory.
Amid this new conspiracy in which Ecuador acts as a lackey of US imperialism, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, sent a direct message. “When in 2014 the Nazi groups carried out the coup in Ukraine, in Kiev, and murdered dozens of innocent people, and the Nazis who govern Ukraine seized power and have been defeated by President [Vladimir] Putin and the Russian people, they also said: ‘The time has come, now it is Venezuela’s turn.’ We already know the story: our people, with our sovereign Constitution in hand, defeated the riots and the attempt to lead our beloved Venezuela to a civil war,” he said, as reported by RT.
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