On Monday, May 3, a year since the frustrated Operation Gideon, President Nicolás Maduro affirmed that it is proven that this terrorist action was planned with the support of the Colombian government chaired by Iván Duque “in order to generate a bloodbath In Venezuela».
«The objective was to carry out an attempt to assault Venezuela, fill it with blood and attack the institutions,» said the Head of State during a telephone contact with the Presidential Commission for the fight and treatment of Covid 19 in the presentation of its balance for this week.
In this regard, the national leader reiterated that “the government of Iván Duque had financed, protected, prepared and launched, as it has been publicly demonstrated, the Operation Gideon against Venezuela. Duque’s goal was to generate a bloodbath and then justify a call for intervention, crazy, Martian ideas”, a mercenary plan that, he said, had the endorsement of former United States President, Donald Trump.
President Nicolás Maduro pointed out that “the National Intelligence Directorate of Colombia was the operational arm of the training, financing and protection, together with the drug lords of the Colombian Guajira to launch this operation (…) All the participants, intellectual authors and The materials of Operation Gideon are convicted and confessed in Venezuela and Colombia”, he said.
In this sense, the Head of State recalled the effective action and courage of the Venezuelan people, who in perfect civic-military-police union faced the mercenary action against which it was deployed, within the framework of «Operation Negro Primero – Crushing the Enemy” and we defeated, in the early hours of the morning of that Sunday, May 3, this attempt to fill Venezuela with blood”.
«Thanks to the strength of Venezuela’s perfect civic-military-police union, these plans were defeated,» he said, anticipating that an act of recognition of the civic-military-police union will take place this Monday, one year after this terrorist operation frustrated by the people and government of Venezuela.
