President Nicolás Maduro urged the attorney general's office to investigate a video released by Colombian paramilitary groups, in which they claim that the extreme right contacted them to promote destabilizing plans for the presidential elections.
The national president received news about an accusation made by a Colombian armed group. They claim that they were contacted by the Venezuelan extreme right wing to carry out a plan to destabilize the government of president Nicolás Maduro on the day of the presidential elections.
The national president received news about an accusation made by a Colombian armed group. They claim that they were contacted by the Venezuelan extreme right wing to carry out a plan to destabilize the government of president Nicolás Maduro on the day of the presidential elections.
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00:00President Nicolás Maduro urged the Attorney General's office to investigate a video released
00:04by Colombian parliamentary groups in which they claim the far-right contacted them to
00:09promote destabilizing plans for the presidential elections. The national president received news
00:14about an accusation made by a Colombian armed group where they claimed that they were contacted
00:19by the Venezuelan far-right to carry out a plan to destabilize the government of President Nicolás
00:24Maduro on the day of the presidential elections. The video details that the Venezuelan far-right
00:28was seeking to attack the border areas with the support of parliamentary groups
00:33after attacking the country's electricity system.
00:43They send it to me from Colombia. He says they denounce this is a parliamentary group there.
00:50Colombia is looking for peace now with President Petro.
00:59With armed groups of the left, with armed groups of the right. This is a group of the right
01:07paramilitary, and they denounce that they were contacted by people of the Venezuelan ultra-right.
01:21To send some thousand men to generate violence in the border states,
01:26attack the electric service, and when they shout fraud on July 28th,
01:31enter to generate the sensation of a civil war inside Venezuela.
01:39In this context, President Maduro warned that Venezuela is in a struggle for its
01:43right to peace while stating that he would not allow anyone to affect the country.
01:48And here is the video that will surely be known. We are going to be pendant,
01:58so that is acknowledged in the news, and our people know that we are in battle for the right
02:06to peace. The right to peace. And nobody is going to spoil Venezuela, I assure you.
02:18The Venezuelan president made the accusations after the Colombian parliamentary group known as
02:23Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra disclosed that the Venezuelan far-right
02:28seeks to destabilize Venezuelan society. Members of the parliamentary group said that among the
02:33requests made by the far-right was to target the power grid in order to create discomfort
02:38to the Venezuelan people. He also said members of the far-right asked them to infiltrate the streets,
02:43generating chaos in case President Maduro were to be re-elected next July 28th. The
02:48parliamentary group expressed its willingness to cooperate and contact Venezuelan diplomats
02:52to provide them with further details about the far-right's destabilization plans.
03:03Fourth of July 2024, the Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra allowed us to
03:09inform the national and international public opinion that UNESCO and the Department of La
03:14Guajira have been contacted by extreme right groups in Venezuela to destabilize the government
03:20of the Republic of Venezuela. The interlocutors have made all kinds of requests, among them
03:26to attack the Venezuelan electrical infrastructure, act against the candidate president,
03:30Nicolás Maduro, act in case he is re-elected, infiltrating protests and generating in the
03:37streets in front of this chaos. We allow ourselves to state that our organization does not get involved
03:44in the internal affairs of other countries, that our organization is due and has a purpose to
03:50maintain order in the Sierra Nevada, that we will contact the diplomatic authorities of Venezuela
03:55to disclose details of the information disclosed attentively,
03:59Major State Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra.
04:02Major Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra.
04:05The Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra Nevada is a Colombian paramilitary structure
04:10that maintains territorial control in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in the Department of
04:14Magdalena and other nearby areas. In a historical context, the criminal diaspora is a result of the
04:20demobilization of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia. This group runs drug trafficking and
04:25extortion networks in tourist areas. The ACSN operates autonomously in their logistical activities
04:31and in some cases have established alliances with criminal organizations to guarantee control
04:35over areas of route and transport of illicit substances to countries such as the United States
04:40and Europe. Recently, there have been cases of capture and participation of ACSN members,
04:46demonstrating their continued involvement in illegal economies. However, in recent times,
04:50the organization has shown a willingness to negotiate with the Colombian government,
04:54declaring a unilateral ceasefire in the hope of installing dialogues.