US EditionArgentine National Among Alleged Conspirators Arrested in Venezuela
- On May 22, 2025, Venezuelan authorities arrested 38 individuals including foreigners accused of plotting terrorist attacks ahead of the May 25 elections.
- The arrests followed intelligence efforts targeting a transnational mafia linked to mercenary violence, drug trafficking, and sabotage intended to destabilize Venezuela.
- The detainees planned embassy bombings, kidnappings of officials’ relatives, and attacks on political figures to generate chaos during the regional and legislative elections.
- Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello reported that authorities seized 200 kilograms of gunpowder from the group during a maritime interception, and stated that they had been paid US$25,000 to carry out violent operations.
- The government reinforced election security and border controls while Argentine officials initiated investigations amid severed diplomatic and consular ties.
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In Venezuela, on Sunday, dozens of people are in prison. The government speaks of a blow to conspirators, the opposition to repression of dissidents.
The sectoral vice president of Politics, Citizen Security and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, denounced last Monday, May 19, a new plot of conspiracy and terrorism in Venezuela, with the arrest of 38 people, 17 of them foreigners, linked to plans of sabotage to the regional elections. These actions would include explosive attacks on embassies, hospitals, police transport units and electrical substations. It was also intended to attack high government o…
President Nicolás Maduro, in the framework of the closing of the campaign in Caracas (capital) before the elections on May 25, warned that the security organs captured more than 50 terrorists, influenced by the extreme right, who entered the country with the aim of violating peace in the electoral context. READ ALSO: President Maduro: We are building a model of direct democracy in Venezuela “They have pretended (the extreme right) to enter merce…
Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, said Thursday that there are more than 50 “mercenaries” captured on the eve of the May 25 legislative and governor elections, that the country’s largest opposition coalition has called for boycott.
Maduro's Government Arrests Three Foreigners Accused of Conspiring Against Elections · Global Voices
The regime of Nicolás Maduro has arrested three foreign citizens for their alleged participation in a conspiracy against next Sunday’s elections in Venezuela. It is a Spaniard, an Argentine and a Bulgarian, who join an Albanian and other foreigners who had been arrested in previous days, with similar accusations. On this Thursday, the Spaniard and the Argentine, Pablo González Carrasco, have been released. There was no confirmation about the ide…
Argentine national among alleged conspirators arrested in Venezuela
Nationals of Argentina, Bulgaria, and Spain have been arrested in Venezuela. They were accused of plotting to 'sabotage, by violent means,' the country ahead of the May 25 regional and legislative elections. According to Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, the group was intercepted at sea with 200 kilos of gunpowder, allegedly part of a conspiracy linked to fugitive former commissioner Iván Simonovis and opposition leader María Corina Machado.
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