A total of 57 terrorists have been captured by the state security forces because of their participation in the failed maritime incursion in Venezuela, registered in early May in La Guaira and Aragua states.
The balance was offered by the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, who detailed that 20 of the main leaders, including two former US military men, «have availed themselves to the legal recourse of delation, and have told everything before the courts of the Republic».
«We have all the testimonies, all the evidences and all the truth in the hands of the Venezuelan justice as it should be, and in full respect of human rights», he said from Fort Tiuna, in Caracas.
He emphasized that the capture of the mercenaries was materialized thanks to the effectiveness of the joint maneuvers of police and military organizations, which were deployed in the early hours of May 3 to stop the progress of the operation that was intended to attack members of the National Government and institutions of the State:
«Nobody’s legs trembled, nobody asked how many there were, but where they were, to go to fight for Venezuela», he stressed at the end of the imposition of decorations on officials deployed during «Operation Negro Primero».
In this regard, he highlighted the commitment shown by the Venezuelan people of Chuao, in Aragua state who, when spotting strange boats, did not hesitate to stop the terrorists.
Colombian media silenced denounces:
By recalling the alerts issued about the preparation of terrorist groups in Colombia, he questioned the silence of the New Granadean country’s media that chose to dismiss the denounces by the Venezuelan Executive.
«The media in Colombia fell silent, they silenced the denounce», he sentenced.
The dignitary emphasized that, since March, Venezuela had been denouncing camps located in the Colombian towns of Riohacha and La Guajira, an action confirmed by those detained in the failed Operation Gideon.
He indicated that the Venezuelan authorities attempted multiple diplomatic and political actions «to stop what could have been a bloodbath», however, they did not obtain positive responses from the governments involved.
