Nicolás Maduro said that the newly promoted lieutenant planned the assassination of Freddy Bernal.

Nicolás Maduro said this Monday, during his memory and account at the Federal Legislative Palace, that a recently promoted lieutenant was plotting the assassination of him and Freddy Bernal in the state of Tachira.

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“They captured a lieutenant in Cucuta (Colombia) in 2021 and kept him as a sleeper cell, we hooked him up and he told everything, how much they paid, who called him, in the middle of negotiations with gringos. . ” I am not conspiring against anyone, never, not even us, all we do is fight for an idea,” Maduro remarked before state television cameras.

Maduro focused mainly on Antonio Ledezma, leader of the Alianza Bravo Pueblo (ABP) and one of the opposition supporters of María Corina Machado’s unitary candidacy.

He did not release the identity of the lieutenant.

“In May, August, November and December, the CIA and the DEA, as well as the American power, aimed to kill, riot, divide, generate guarimbas,” Maduro added.

“When they plan, they think they are alone and we are stupid. “We got the first attempt to kill me a week after Ledezma’s statement in Madrid where he said he had soldiers and they would act,” A Chavista spokesman insisted, though Ledezma has never publicly offered such comments.

According to Maduro, “the person responsible for that military operation, the first lieutenant captured at the border, the objective was to kill me in La Vineta. The criminal of Ledezma, the vampire of Madrid and you know that other surnames are involved. Ledezma declares and we already broke everything was laying, but silent.”