Maduro will ask Obama to hand over Miami conspirators

During the Summit of the Americas to be held next month in Panama, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro will ask U.S. president Barack Obama to hand over to Venezuela’s justice the members of what he called a “conspiracy center” in Miami which is “conspiring against the Venezuelan economy.”

“I am going to tell president Obama in Panamá that he is keeping a center which is conspiring against the economy and attacking the [Venezuelan] currency and commerce. It is directed by people who are fugitives of Venezuelan justice and who [act] from Miami,” said Maduro.

According to the president, the web page dolartoday, which has become the benchmark for the black market Dollar, is part of a conspiracy lead by Venezuelan banker Eligio Cedeño. Maduro argued that dolartoday represents a perverse “virtual economy” which does not correspond to the “real” Venezuelan economy. 

Subversive plan “The Exit” According to AVN

The Agencia Venezolana de Noticias has published in English a piece entitled “Subversive plan ‘The Exit’ released in the US month before its application.” The article is based on a report by Últimas Noticias published yesterday which carries a video of Leopoldo López explaining in October 2013 to a group of supporters in Miami his strategy to remove Maduro from power.

In the video López does not speak of the possibility of a coup or even of violent protests to overthrow Maduro. He does claim that previous elections were stolen from the opposition and questions if the opposition should assume the “attitude proper to a democratic system” which, according to López, implies preparing for future elections.

However the article by AVN, following Últimas Noticas, claims that López was in truth explaining his “Putschist plan ‘The Exit’” to the “the subversive organization VEPPEX, or Politically Persecuted Venezuelans in Exile.”

This is how AVN explains “The Exit” (La Salida):

Through "The Exit" or "Solution," subversive groups used violence and terrorism to cause unrest in the country, resulting in 43 deaths, attempts against the life of children and workers, as well as hindered the right of free passage with mortal devices such as wires in major roads.

AVN also links the plan to the “Economic War” denounced repeatedly by Maduro:

The plan was carried out between February and June 2014 simultaneously with an economic war characterized by smuggling, hoarding and overpricing of staple goods, with the open target of overthrowing the Nicolas Maduro Administration.

The article ends with the assertion that López was forced to hand himself to the authorities seeking protection from a plan by “right-wing leaders to attempt” against his life:

Simultaneously to "The Exit," intelligence corps found out a plan devised within right-wing leaders to attempt against Lopez, situation that made him surrender to the Public Ministry.

Jaua: Capriles will travel to meet the international ultra-right wing

The Minister for the Communes, Elias Jaua, claims that the Governor of Miranda and opposition Henrique Capriles will travel this month to Spain and to Miami in order “receive instructions and financial oxygen to continue the destabilization campaign against Venezuela’s democracy.”

Jaua mentioned Roger Noriega as one of the “ultra-rightists” Capriles will meet during his trip.

“It’s a lie that Capriles is one of the more moderates of the opposition,” said the Minister, “he is part of the game being played to interrupt democracy, part of the plan of destabilization against our Fatherland.”

Jaua is especially concerned that Capriles could be using Miranda State’s public resources to finance his travels and conspiracies against the government: “We have decided, the National Government, the Parliament, the Regional Parliament [of Miranda], the regional deputies, the city mayors of Miranda, and the Popular Power, to begin a process of debate on the use of resources that have been constitutionally transferred to the State of Miranda, and we will ask Carpiles for an explanations of his travels,” warned he, and added, “we will battle to stop Capriles from using his post of Governor to further his personal interests and his ambition and obsession to become the president.”

(The Agencia Venezolana de Noticias exceptionally publishes images of opposition leaders to illustrate negative comments. This is a rare case of an image of Capriles taken from AVN.) 

Maduro: Scientific evidence of conspiracy to be shown soon

Yesterday President Maduro again announced that he will soon reveal the evidence of a plan to use local military to “generate chaos in the country.”

“I will show a scientific investigation, (…) that shows how some politicians are constantly plotting a coup d’état [reincidentes en golpe de Estado], even some who are deputies of the National Assembly, and some business people linked to Miami too. [They] are plotting to try to buy members of the Armed Forces. (…) They are preparing to attack the institutions of the Fatherland in order to generate a general chaos in the country. (…) Justice will be made with this malevolent plan. Enough of imperialist coups! Enough!” Maduro declared.

Miami and the Tea Party against dialogue in Venezuela

Ramón Guillermo Aveledo has announced that the MUD will “freeze” its participation in the UNASUR and Vatican sponsored talks with the government. According to Aveledo dialogue is no longer possible under continued government repression of student protests.

President Maduro has another explanation for Aveledo’s announcement: he claims that the opposition is being pressurized by its foreign bosses into walking out of the dialogue sessions.

“Now, after they [the opposition] sat down [at the dialogue sessions], they have received a lot of pressure. I know it. The problem is that I know too much. I know of the pressure their families have received form the extremist sectors of Miami, including threats. And there is [also] the power of money. I know of the pressure that is being exercised by the extremist lobby of the Tea Party”, declared Maduro.

The President also announced that he will meet the UNASUR and Vatican representatives that are in the country, but that this time he will accompanied by Interior Minister Rodriguez Torres, who will show the foreign representatives evidence of what he claims was an attempt by student protesters to “take by assault” the Vatican’s Apostolic Nunciature.