Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello giving statements to the press about the recent far-right terrorist plot foiled in Venezuela, on August 7, 2025. Photo: Con el Mazo Dando.
Venezuela’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello has revealed that thanks to an intelligence operation, a terrorist attack that was scheduled to take place last Sunday, at the Victory Monument of the Great Patriotic War against Nazism in Plaza Venezuela, Caracas, has been foiled.
Thirteen people have been arrested in this case, all linked to the violence cells known as far-right “clandestine units.”
During an address this Thursday, August 7, Cabello explained that thanks to suspicious statements from far-right spokespeople, monitoring and prevention mechanisms were activated, successfully keeping this terrorist plan from being implemented. The plan involved the use of José Daniel Ortega—who has now been detained—who was responsible for placing the device that would detonate in the aforementioned populous venue.
Minister Cabello stated that during the operation, a bag containing explosive devices, analog telephones, three kilos of TNT (explosive), and other strategic materials were seized. He asked his audience to consider “how many people could have died” if the device had exploded.
“There’s a plaza there that has a gas outlet,” he said, “when that exploded, it [would have] combined with the gas… there’s also the subway station, a gas station, passing cars. All of that would have been hit. Imagine if that had exploded!”
He recalled that for seven months, there have been reports of a criminal alliance between drug traffickers, far-right politicians, and criminal gangs operating in Venezuela, who attempt to carry out these types of actions to disrupt the country’s peace.
The minister reiterated that this terrorist act is part of a plan orchestrated by the far-right, “always under the direction of the US,” aimed at attacking government officials, military installations, gas stations, and public spaces.
He stated that the far-right sectors that are allied with drug trafficking and criminal gangs are only trying to provoke violence in the country, because they believe that as a result, “they will generate a regime change in our country, to achieve the ouster of President Nicolás Maduro; and with the ouster of President Maduro, what they call the end of the Revolution.”
The top Venezuelan official questioned why the international community “doesn’t like to hear what’s happening here in Venezuela or the efforts being made by a people who want to live in peace, and against those who, without any scruples, want to subvert order and destroy the peace of Venezuelans.”
How did they operate?
The minister explained that JosĂ© Daniel GarcĂa Ortega went to Plaza Venezuela at 11:32 a.m. on Sunday, August 3, carrying a bag containing the explosive and an analog telephone device. He left it at the location where the crime was to be committed, and left the area.
According to the investigation, this individual met a citizen nicknamed “La Nena” six months ago, who introduced him to the alias “El Flaco,” who was responsible for hiring him for this crime for a sum of $20,000.
Days before, he received a call asking him to pick up the materials at the El Valle metro station; at the same time, he received a mobile payment for the purchase of the materials he had deployed.
On the way to the place where the terrorist act was to be carried out, GarcĂa and another person got off at the Bellas Artes station and took a bus to Plaza Venezuela. Upon getting off, the second person told him he would wait for him on the bridge while he left his bag at the location he had indicated (behind the monument’s columns). He then took a van and got off in front of the Zona Rental station. He headed toward La Hoyada. There, he met up with aliases “la negra” and “el flaco.” The three of them boarded a bus headed toward Los Valles del Tuy.
Upon arriving home, he proceeded to tell his mother about the event, and indicated that he would leave the country after committing this act.
In his attempt to flee the country, he acquired tickets to Colombia, but was arrested by Venezuelan authorities, who had been tracking him.
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On permanent alert
Following the arrest of this individual, Cabello noted that state security agencies continue to work to safeguard and maintain peace in the country, despite acts such as this directed from the US empire and its allies.
He also highlighted the fundamental role of the public in dismantling criminal gangs, referring to the collaboration of a citizen who recorded the incident and reported it to the authorities, providing relevant information in this case.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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