“They left there angry, all angry. Tomorrow they can say what they want. But she [Maria Corina Machado] deceived them. She told them the marines would rescue them in three days like heroes, that they would take out Maduro in three days, and they never arrived,” assured the vice president of the Policy, Citizen Security, and Peace sector, Diosdado Cabello Rondón, referring to the four self-exiled in the Argentine embassy in Caracas.
During the “Sin Truco Ni Maña” (Without Trick or Craft) radio program, Cabello emphasized that the far-right extremists “dressed up, put on their superhero outfits hoping they would be rescued, and that never happened. Then the pessimism began, the fighting among themselves, the arguments. From there came out Mr. Fernando Martínez Motola in December, tired of those people.”
Therefore, he emphasized that the four far-right activists were in the Argentine embassy out of their own free will: «They were there because they felt like it, they were told, ‘Go there!'»
In fact, one of the first self-exiles to leave on her own was Claudia Macero, on August 20, long before Martínez Motola, and the right-wing press was unaware that Macero was no longer at the embassy: «They fell on the floor like Condorito because they have no information about anything,» he recalled.
He stated that far-right activist Maria Corina Machado was unaware of the conditions of these four people who were in the Argentine embassy: «They asked her about Claudia Macera and she said, ‘will we someday find out?'» Not even she knew. They acted carelessly, abandoning their people.”
On the other hand, he held the four individuals who remained in the diplomatic mission responsible for any damage to the infrastructure, as the Revolutionary Government has never entered these spaces.
“It was them who abandoned and did whatever they wanted in that house. We didn’t go there. They were there because they wanted to. Rebuilding that house is going to be difficult,” asserted Cabello.
He also expressed that Venezuela has gotten rid of a problem with the departure of the far-right militants from the Argentine embassy, who remained in self-exile: “Today, Venezuela has gotten rid of a problem. Imagine if something had happened to Mr. Omar González, who was the oldest of those inside, in that embassy. They would have blamed Venezuela. Now those who are taking them away will be responsible, and we don’t accept any returns.”