
This Thursday the Vice President for Communication, Tourism and Culture, Jorge Rodríguez, appeared before the national and international media in which he showed evidences and testimonies of the continued coup against President Nicolás Maduro, of foreign participation in the aggression against Venezuela and of the intellectual authors.
From the Ayacucho Hall at Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, the high official stressed that the Bolivarian Government thwarted the attempted military coup instigated from Colombia and the United States by being aware of the operations of who was the main ringleader of this action, Oswaldo Valentín García Palomo, a retired colonel of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), who was captured on January 30.
«When we captured him we found all the equipment, bracelets, weapons, false identifications, among other things; Garcia Palomo confessed that they had three days to give the military coup», explained the also Minister of People’s Power for Communication.
During the press conference, the minister showed a video with part of the confession of the detainee, in which he affirmed that he had collaboration from the Governments of the United States and Colombia:
«I made a contact in Colombia with a person from the CIA and I told him what I was doing, in Colombia with Parsifal de Sola and a member of the national police of that country, and they gave me support,» said García Palomo in the video.
The head of the office for the Communication, explained that the activities of the Venezuelan ex-military were closely followed by the intelligence services of the country. «They believed that there would be a military uprising», said Rodriguez, including Julio Borges, who is residing in Bogotá. .
Garcia Palomo maintained contact with a hotel entrepreneur, Parsifal De Sola, and Borges, both involved in the so-called Blue Coup in 2015, in which some officers of the Bolivarian Military Aviation would participate.
«The relationship between García Palomo and Parsifal de Sola is established in the coup attempts. The member of the national police of Colombia has already been identified, which is the link of the terrorist with Juan Manuel Santos», added Rodriguez.
During his confession, Garcia Palomo also stated that he knew of a plan in addition to his, to overthrow the Venezuelan leader, and argued that he decided to organize a military plan against the government when he knew that the United States had plans to make a military attack on the country that would generate dead and important damages in the country.
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