Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro linked Héctor Guerrero Flores on Wednesday, July 31, 2024 –alias Niño Guerrero-, leader of the transnational criminal gang Tren de Aragua, with the protests unleashed in the last few hours against the electoral results of last Sunday and delivered by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which ratified him as re-elected president.
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“The famous Niño Guerrero is in the south of Caracas directing operations, right now he is moving, he is trying to flee to Colombia,” The president said during a press conference, in which he reiterated that the violence generated during the protests, which have taken place in various regions of the country, is part of a coup against him.
He said that the United States sent Guerrero to Venezuela to promote the demonstrations, which have arisen spontaneously, especially after the main opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), assured that its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, won the election by a wide margin.
“They sent him from Manizales (Colombia), because the gringos broke him, they issued a decree threatening him, declaring him a terrorist And they told him: ‘You go to Venezuela, you do something to save yourself,'” he said.
According to Maduro, Guerrero entered Venezuela with the complicity of Uribe and Duque
The Chavista leader said that Guerrero, who escaped from a Venezuelan prison, entered the country again with the complicity of former Colombian presidents Alvaro Uribe Velez and Ivan Duque, whom Maduro has blamed for dozens of alleged plots to kill him and numerous acts of sabotage of public services.
He also said that another of the country’s most wanted criminals, who operates in eastern Caracas, is also behind one of the groups promoting protests in Petare, the largest favela in Venezuela, where EFE found that thousands of people took to the streets to demonstrate peacefully.
The CNE announced Maduro’s victory despite the fact that 20% of the electoral records had not yet been counted, leaving a margin of votes that could change the final result. In addition, The PUD created a website on which it published 81% of the minutes that demonstrate, according to anti-Chavez supporters, that González Urrutia won the elections.
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Source: https://www.noticiascaracol.com/mundo/uribe-y-duque-fueron-complices-en-ingreso-de-jefe-de-tren-de-aragua-para-protestas-maduro-cb20
