Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during a speech days before his inauguration, scheduled for Friday, January 10, 2025. Photo: Presidential Press.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has reported that seven people accused of being foreign mercenaries were arrested on Tuesday, including two high-level US officials, two Colombians captured in different parts of the country, and three individuals from Ukraine.
President Maduro explained this Tuesday, January 7, that in the next few hours confessions would be written by the captured mercenaries, “because they intended to carry out terrorist actions in Venezuela. But our operations to defend peace continue! We will get them all, we are going for them, because Venezuela should be respected. We are going to guarantee the peace of the homeland, of our Venezuela of the 21st century.”
The head of state took the opportunity to recall that in recent days, the number of threats against the people of Venezuela has increased. He emphasized that the peace of Venezuelans will continue to be secured, refuting complaints from the far-right and mainstream media.
“Nerves of steel, calm, and sanity,” said the Venezuelan president, “maximum popular, military, and police mobilization. Venezuela will win on our path of peace, with the Constitution and the stability and sovereignty of Venezuela.”
President Maduro said that the great history of the 21st century is currently being written, with the union and fusion of the people, the military, and the police.
He also reiterated that in both November and December of 2024, 125 foreign mercenaries were captured, who are believed to have been involved in the execution of terrorist actions in the country. He explained that they have been determined to be from 25 different countries.
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President Maduro also denounced fascism and its supporters, for the violence they had planned to develop in the country with foreign mercenaries, in addition to filling the country with bombs to attack important leaders of the revolution and try to ruin the lives and Christmas of Venezuelans.
On Wednesday, during a ceremony in the Miraflores Palace, President Maduro clarified his announcement from the previous day, informing that the three Ukrainians captured had arrived directly from the frontlines of their war. He also informed that one of the US nationals captured works for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the other one for the US Military.
(Alba Ciudad) with Orinoco Tribune content
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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