US Denies Involvement in Plot to Kill Venezuela’s Maduro After Three Americans Detained

It sure seems like the CIA is now sending assassination squads to try to assassinate the president of Venezuela.

They failed to remove him through CIA-backed riots started on social media trends in the country which falsely claimed the election was fake, they failed to garner support for military action, so the next obvious step would be assassination.

The Guardian:

The US state department rejected allegations of CIA involvement in an alleged assassination plot against Nicolás Maduro after Venezuelan officials announced the arrest of three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech on Saturday.

The claims of a plot against Maduro – the Venezuelan president, whose recent re-election is contested – were made on state television by Diosdado Cabello, the interior minister. Cabello said the foreign citizens including a US navy member were part of a CIA-led plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government and kill several members of its leadership. In the television programme, Cabello showed images of rifles that he said were confiscated from some of the alleged plotters.

The US state department late on Saturday confirmed the detention of a US military member and said it was aware of “unconfirmed reports of two additional US citizens detained in Venezuela”.

“Any claims of US involvement in a plot to overthrow Maduro are categorically false. The United States continues to support a democratic solution to the political crisis in Venezuela.”

The claims come two days after the US treasury imposed sanctions on 16 allies of Maduro, accused by the US government of obstructing voting during the disputed 28 July Venezuelan presidential election and carrying out human rights abuses.

Maybe Maduro staged this. It’s possible.

There’s no way to know.

What we do know, however, is that the Americans are openly declaring that they will not tolerate Venezuela having a government they don’t like, and that the Americans are fully committed to removing that government by any means necessary. According to democracy and the rules-based order, if you have a government the United States does not like, the United States has a right to do anything to change your government, including revolution, war, or assassination.

It’s who we are because of our values.