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Maduro links opposition to criminal gangs

President Maduro has said that after “two days of combat” the police killed two criminal gang leaders known as “El Picure” and “El Topo.” He also said that opposition leaders have links to the criminal gangs that operate in the south of the country.

El Topo was the main suspect behind the Tumeremo massacre in early March. Maduro said that the opposition deputy Américo De Grazia should be investigated because of the timing in which he denounced the massacre. “The people arrested are talking, and there are more than one right-wing deputies [involved.] There was one deputy writing on twitter on real time at the same time the massacre was happening,” said Maduro referring to De Grazia.

Before Maduro, Interior Minister Gustavo González López had already declared that the opposition had links with El Topo and his criminal gang. “We discovered that there are links with political groups of the right in Bolivar state.” According to González López El Topo’s gang was part of an opposition plot to affect the “Mining Arch,” the government’s latest mining project, and to “link the Venezuelan state to situations of violence.”

Deputy Américo De Grazia was the first to report that a massacre had occurred near the mining town of Tumeremo. He answered the recent government accusations by claiming that the Interior Minister is trying to justify the Mining Arch and its negative effects on the environment and the people of the region.

Since the first reports came out about the Tumeremo massacre, the government has made similar accusations against De Grazia and other opposition leaders. Ruling party’s governor of Bolivar, Francisco Rangel Gómez, first denied that the massacre had ever occurred, but then said that it was “all part of a political game-play by the right that is receiving funds from illegal mining in the area.”

Eva Golinger: strong possibility Chávez was assassinated

The theory that president Chávez was assassinated by his enemies is receiving renewed attention in recent days. Last week Venezuela’s vice-president Aristóbulo Istúriz said that “Chávez had become a target that had to be eliminated.” Istúriz admitted he could not prove that Chávez had been assassinated, but that he has a “strong moral conviction” that he was.

Eva Golinger, author of The Chávez Code, shares that conviction. In an interview published by Counterpunch, reposted by Telesur and by RT in Spanish, Golinger claims that Chávez was the target of several assassinations attempts, including a little known radioactive event at a New York university during the president’s visit in 2006. “While these accounts may sound like fiction, they are amply documented and very real,” sais Golinger.

Maduro again claims that the opposition is planning to assassinate him

President Maduro has again claimed that the Venezuelan opposition, “with the help of the United States,” is planning to assassinate him. The plan, according to the president, is part of a wide plot by the United States government in order to stage a “desperate intervention” in Venezuela.

Maduro said yesterday that he will reveal evidence of the plan “in the next hours.”

“We will show evidence of paramilitary camps we have discovered in the State of Miranda,” he said.

According to the news portal Efecto Cocuyo, Maduro, since December 2013, has claimed 24 times that the opposition if planning to assassinate him or to stage a coup against his government. 

Birthers Video

Nicolás Maduro does not care about the Venezuelan people and the “humanitarian crisis” they face. The explanation of why this is so is very simple, claims this video, “”Maduro is not Venezuelan.”

Interestingly the video does not begin by claiming that Maduro was actually born in Colombia, but that, according to the Colombian Constitution, he “is Colombian by birth,” given that his mother is of that nationality, and that he supposedly resided for a time in the Colombian city of Cúcuta during his youth.

“Nobody knows for sure the actual birth place of Maduro,” it is claimed in the video, “because he has never provided his birth certificate. What is known for sure is that Maduro lived part of his youth in Cuba, where he was indoctrinated until he was turned into a soldier of Fidel.”