Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello on Friday He said Five foreign nationals have been arrested in the country and accused of involvement in an attempted coup against the government of Nicolas Maduro. Three of them are American citizens, one is Bolivian and one is Peruvian. Cabello did not say what evidence supports the charges against them, nor when the arrests were made. However, he claimed that US intelligence services were also involved in the plot: the US denied the accusations and condemned the arrests. In September, six more foreigners were arrested for their alleged involvement in a plot that Cabello said was orchestrated by the CIA.
Maduro has ruled Venezuela in an authoritarian manner since 2013. In July, he won the elections, according to the opposition and the international community, thanks to serious fraud. Maduro's government has in the past used US citizens detained in Venezuela to gain favors and organize exchanges: in 2023, it released ten of them to secure the release of Alex Saab, a government-allied Colombian businessman detained in Florida on money laundering and other financial charges. Crimes.
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