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(CNN Spanish) - “From Colombia they are preparing 10 plans to kill me, but with the protection of God and that of the people I will live 100 years or more, Amen!” Said the beleaguered president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro at an event in Caracas east Wednesday.
"American imperialism and the president of Colombia, Iván Duque, want to kill me," Maduro added.
For his part, President Duque said in a tweet on Tuesday that “Colombia has never attacked Venezuela and has never been in a warlike race; We are defenders of democracy. We have denounced the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, as they have done more than 50 countries in the world, and we will not stop doing it ”,
Duque reiterated that Colombia recognizes Juan Guaidó as the legitimate president of Venezuela.
#Florencia Colombia has never attacked Venezuela and has never been in a warlike race; We are defenders of democracy. We have denounced the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, as they have done more than 50 countries in the world, and we will not stop doing it. pic.twitter.com/3q0G7PYUQ0
- Iván Duque (@IvanDuque) September 12, 2019
It is not the first time that Maduro denounces alleged attempts by international actors to attempt against his life.
The most recent was on August 31, the Maduro government also accused Colombia of sponsoring alleged terrorist conspiracy in Caracas
According to the vice president of communication, Jorge Rodríguez, there was an alleged plot by the Government of Colombia to allegedly attack several targets in the Venezuelan capital.
MIRA: Government of Nicolás Maduro again accuses Colombia of sponsoring alleged terrorist conspiracy in Caracas
Rodriguez said it was planned from paramilitary camps in Colombia, it was revealed from the discovery of alleged explosives at two points west of the city. He said that following an intelligence operation, the authorities captured a Colombian-Venezuelan citizen who was involved with leaders of the Venezuelan opposition in exile and military detained to install explosives in Caracas.
Without showing any other evidence, Rodriguez accused the government of Iván Duque to protect alleged "paramilitaries" who would conspire against Nicolás Maduro.
"You are an accomplice of these murderers and terrorists," Rodriguez told the president of Colombia.
Duque responded at the time saying that he would denounce Maduro to the OAS and the UN for protecting "terrorists" by opening his doors to former FARC commanders who are not fulfilling the commitment to reinstatement.
LOOK: Maduro says there's a plan to kill him
Other complaints about alleged plans to kill Maduro
Complaints about alleged plans to assassinate Nicolás Maduro began months before he won the elections in April 2013.
The authorities have pointed out Venezuelan opposition and military politicians to be behind these plots, as well as senior officials of foreign governments and even presidents. All have denied the accusations that, until now, do not have evidence to support them.
2013
January
Maduro denounced that alleged groups infiltrated in the country allegedly sought to attempt against the life of Diosdado Cabello, then president of the National Assembly, and against his own life
May
This time the questioned president said there was a plan to destabilize Venezuela and to get him "out of the way." "They have made a decision abroad, a decision in Miami and Bogotá, they made it, and we know here in Venezuela who are the members of the right who are in connection with Uribe," he said of the former president of Colombia. Uribe responded on Twitter saying:
"To the IMMADURA (sic) accusation of the dictatorship DISCOVERED by fraud and violence a single answer: that the elections be repeated".
Maduro added on that occasion that supposedly a group of experts "came with a poison" to inoculate it. “Not for me to die in a day. No. To get sick in the course of the coming months. ”
That same month, he said the Barack Obama government had plans to assassinate him. "It would be the worst mistake of his life," said the president of Venezuela.
The Obama administration repeatedly denied being involved in plans to destabilize the Maduro government.
MIRA: How many assassination attempts does President Maduro claim to have been a victim of?
2014
May
Jorge Rodríguez, at that time mayor of the liberating municipality of Caracas, said that he knew of "at least" one State Department official - "very high official," he said - that he was involved in a plan for assassination and coup d'etat. He accused María Corina Machado, former deputy of the National Assembly, of making an international lobby for this purpose.
"There is no single evidence that he has committed any crime, I have always acted in accordance with the law and the constitution," Machado defended.
2015
August
Maduro said there was a "hate campaign in Colombia to get me killed, a hate campaign against Venezuela." Juan Manuel Santos, then president of Colombia, responded in September:
“Who can even consider that from Bogotá, with the“ consent and a blind eye ”of my Government, it is planned to attempt against the life of President Maduro. Do not! A thousand times no! ”
2017
September
“They have given the order to assassinate the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and the order comes from the Oval office,” said Maduro.
The Government of President Donald Trump rejected the allegations of alleged plans to destabilize the Government of Maduro.
The attempt to kill Maduro in 2018
In March of this year, CNN obtained new videos that provide a chilling perspective on the mysterious drone attack last year against Maduro. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first attempt to kill a head of state with a commercial device of this type, bought online and assembled by hand with military explosives inside.
MIRA: Exclusive details of the plan to kill Maduro with drones in August
A man has acknowledged being the organizer of the attack and says he was executed by a group of defectors from the Venezuelan Army, along with other people. In an exclusive interview with CNN, given on condition of anonymity, he recapitulated how they prepared for the attack and gave us videos taken with cell phones that showed drones, explosives and even practice flights in the Colombian plains.
Opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who declared himself interim president of Venezuela, told CNN that he failed to approve that attack. "Those options are not valid." He added that he actually suspected that the attack had been a montage. “I think it was something internal, armed by the government. He ends up making him look like a victim. ”
The day after the attack, the US national security adviser, John Bolton, warned that he could have been pretended to give the Maduro government an "excuse", perhaps to put a hard hand. Still, officials with access to intelligence reports told CNN that they believe it was an authentic attack that went wrong.
Maduro also blamed the extreme right and the Colombian Government, which denied all responsibility.
The organizer of the attack told CNN that Colombia was not involved. That the drone attack was orchestrated by a group in which deserters from the Venezuelan Armed Forces participated, with the objective of killing Maduro.
The attacker says they met with several US government officials. three times after the attack. “They arranged three meetings later, I imagine to gather information that would allow them to study the case, but it didn't happen from there,” he says.
A spokesman for the US Department of State He didn't want to talk about that supposed meeting, but he did say: "Our policy is to support a peaceful transition in Venezuela." CNN has not found any evidence that this meeting was held.
With information from Gabriela Matute Urdaneta, Jorge Luis Pérez Valery and Paula Bravo Medina of CNN in Spanish
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