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By Staff Writers, teleSUR
teleSUR
Saturday, May 27, 2017

Opposition protesters use home-made mortars while clashing with Venezuelan security forces. | Photo: Reuters

The Venezuelan government announced Wednesday that it had dismantled armed opposition groups, detaining a number of right-wing leaders, and seizing various explosive materials. The government seized Molotov cocktails, and other explosive materials from armed right-wing groups causing violent protests, detaining many leaders.

"During the last 48 hours, we have managed to dismantle new armed terrorist cells that have been unleashing violence, trying to eradicate the rights to life, peace, free transit and the daily development of society," announced Venezuela's Interior and Justice Minister General Nestor Reverol on the state-run VTV channel.

The minister announced that two members of the jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez's Popular Will or VP party, David Sosa Escalante and Maria Andreina Montilla, had been arrested on charges of organizing violent vandalism. The party’s spokesperson, Jorge Machado Jimenez, had been arrested Monday on allegations of organizing and funding violent groups in the capital.

"Dismantled terrorist gangs that supported violent acts in San Antonio de los Altos and Santa Barbara del Zulia."

Another couple of suspects, Victor Lizandro and Marelys Hernandez Bello, were also detained for instigating violence in the state of Miranda, especially in the city of San Antonio de los Altos.

Other detainees, who were in charge of organizing opposition clashes in the northwestern state of Zulia, included Hector Gonzalez Machado, a member of the A New Time or UNT party, and Ergio Paz and Daniel Albornoz, members of the rightist party Justice First, led by National Assembly chief Julio Borges.

"In all of these events, a large amount of unconventional explosive material, Molotov bombs, used for terrorist actions, and other elements of criminal interest were seized," Reverol stated.

"The public prosecutor's office with its inaction has not ensured the correct application of justice, generating anxiety in the population."

"There is no doubt that the Venezuelan extreme right is persisting in its quest for a coup d'etat, orchestrated by armed paramilitary groups associated with criminal gangs, completely outside the Constitution, to the point of besieging military installations with the implicit risk of causing deaths," he added.

The Venezuelan government also accused prosecutors of generating a "climate of impunity," with Reverol stating that the "inaction" of the Public Prosecutor's office "has not guaranteed the correct application of justice."

Earlier this week, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro warned of a Nazi-fascist current within the opposition, saying the racist faction, rooted in “hatred and contempt,” involved leaders from the Democratic Unity Table, known by its Spanish acronym MUD, including the right-wing president of the National Assembly, Julio Borges.

As the Constituent Assembly process moves forward, the right-wing MUD opposition remains opposed, calling instead for violent protests, laying bare that their only demand is the ouster of Maduro’s government.


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