During a nationally broadcast
press conference on Wednesday, Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El
Aissami announced the break-up of a violent destabilization plot and
the arrest of right-wing opposition deputy Gilber Caro on charges of
terrorism.
On Wednesday morning Caro, a
substitute deputy in the National Assembly for the far-right Popular
Will party, was pulled over in his car where police found a rifle, 20
cartridges of ammunition, plastic explosives and a large amount of
cash, according to El Aissami.
“Who knows how many lives
would have been lost if we had not stopped this threat,” said
El Aissami, who added that this plot was similar to previous ones
except that “this time they found someone with a criminal
record.” Caro had previously served time in jail for drug
trafficking and murder charges, according to El Aissami.
“We are confronting a fascist
opposition which doesn’t believe in democracy,” said El
Aissami.“The anti-democratic organization called Popular Will is
responsible for the violence in the country,” the vice
president added, calling the far-right opposition party “a
terrorist group.”
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