Colombian ex-paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso reveals plan to destabilize Venezuela
In an interview with Venezuela News, former Colombian paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso, exposed the Venezuelan opposition's plot to receive support from Colombian armed groups in order to carry out a coup d'état in Venezuela. teleSUR
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00:00Former Parliamentary Chief of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, Salvatore Mancuso, disclosed
00:06more information about plans of the Venezuelan far-right that sought the support of armed
00:10groups to destabilize Venezuela.
00:12The action sought to carry out a coup d'etat and assassinate President Hugo Chavez.
00:16In an interview to the Venezuelan news agency, the former parliamentary explained that several
00:21leaders of the Venezuelan right wing intended to bomb the Miraflores government palace,
00:25the military base of La Carlota, and assassinate the then-President Hugo Chavez.
00:30Mancuso indicated that groups of Venezuelan opposition leaders were able to gather parliamentaries
00:34with the ultimate purpose of shedding blood on Venezuelan soil.
00:38He also detailed that the paramilitaries received advice from Israel to carry out violent actions,
00:43ambushes and tortures.
00:44In view of the destabilizing plans that the far-right seeks to carry out in Venezuela,
00:49Mancuso called not to get involved in processes of violence and war.
00:53Instead, he said that there is the path of dialogue.