Nicolás Maduro says that data on those responsible for planning the attack was delivered on Monday to the attaché of the US diplomatic mission in Bogotá, Colombia
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, stated that those responsible for planning an attack on the US embassy in Caracas are on North American territory, and that Washington has been informed of their identity and location.
“Relevant security measures were taken, because we respect international law (…) Representative Jorge Rodríguez informed the names, surnames and location of the people responsible, who from the United States prepared this attack on the US embassy in Caracas”, said Maduro on Tuesday.
The Venezuelan leader was speaking during a meeting with ambassadors from Russia and China, broadcast on state television, during which he stated that the data on those responsible for planning the attack were delivered on Monday to the attache of the US diplomatic mission in Bogotá, Colombia, John McNamara.
“The USA has all the information and, if necessary, we will make it public. For reasons of prudence, we have officially informed the United States Government, so that they can carry out investigations and proceed with the immediate capture of the terrorists who are right there, in the United States”, he said.
Nicolás Maduro also stressed that “it would be advisable for the competent US bodies to seriously investigate this information” which was “given in good faith by the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela”.
On the other hand, it devalued a possible diplomatic distance between Washington and Caracas, after the sending of US troops to the Caribbean to combat drug trafficking.
“They spread the news that they don’t have diplomatic relations with us. We don’t have them with you either. That they don’t have diplomatic relations with us, we don’t have them with you either”, he said.
However, he stressed that “the foreigners deny having contact with Caracas to ignore that they gave them the names of the terrorists” and warned that if this attack had occurred, it would have been “a serious incident”.
Venezuela denounced, on Monday, plans by “extremist sectors of the local right” to carry out an attack with explosives against the North American embassy in Caracas, where some Venezuelans believe opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is taking refuge.
“I want to announce that, in three different ways, we have alerted the United States Government about a serious threat: through a false flag operation prepared by extremist sectors of the local right, an attempt is being made to plant lethal explosives in the embassy”, wrote the president of parliament, Jorge Rodríguez on Telegram.
Meanwhile, through the radio and television program “Com Maduro +”, the President of Venezuela said that thanks to the work of the “information and intelligence system that has given very good results for many years”, it was possible to “compare and follow the trail of conversations between the planners of terrorist action”.
“It’s a typical false flag operation [que parece ser o que não é]of provocation to create a scandal and blame the Bolivarian Government, and start an escalation of confrontations in which there will be no questions, but only the noise of machine guns and missiles”, he said.
In recent weeks, messages have circulated on local social networks claiming that opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who has been in hiding since the July 2024 presidential elections, is taking refuge in the US embassy in Caracas.
The US Embassy in Caracas has been closed since January 2019, after Nicolás Maduro broke relations with Washington, which he accused of supporting an attempted coup d’état to impose a de facto government, by recognizing the former president of parliament, the opposition Juan Guaidó, as the country’s “interim president”.
Tensions between Venezuela and the US increased in August, after Donald Trump sent warships to the Caribbean, citing the fight against Latin American drug cartels.
