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Venezuela denounces attempted invasion 3:17
(CNN Spanish) - The attorney general of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, showed through the Venezuelan state television station What, according to him, is the contract that the president of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, would have signed with an alleged US security company to organize a military action against the government of the questioned President Nicolás Maduro.
The document is part of the evidence his office is collecting after the alleged maritime raid that thwarted Venezuelan security forces on Sunday.
The Maduro government authorities assure that 8 people were killed in this procedure and another 2 were detained.
“The payment to supposedly liberate this country (Venezuela) starts with a contract, that was the first, with the value of 200 million dollars. This contract is already public and notorious, ”Saab said Monday without specifying how his office obtained the document.
For its part, the office of the president of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, recognized as interim president of Venezuela by more than 50 countries, rejected in a statement to have a relationship with any US security company.
"The legitimate government has no relationship with any company in the security and defense branch," the statement read.
Guaidó had already rejected through his social networks the new “attempted coup d'état” in which the Maduro government implicates him.
"Of course there are patriotic soldiers willing to fight for Venezuela, but it is evident that what happened in Vargas (La Guaira state, on the Venezuelan central coast) is a new pot for the dictatorship," he published on his Twitter account on Sunday.
In a second performance on Monday, the State security forces captured another 8 people on board a rudimentary vessel on the coasts of Aragua (center) "also linked to this group of terrorists," reported Venezolana de Televisión television.
The first of these military actions was alleged to have occurred on Sunday off the coast of La Guaira state, on the central coast of the Caracas metropolitan region, against "terrorist mercenaries from Colombia," the Maduro government reported.
CNN has not been able to independently verify any of these operations.
Iván Duque's government described the accusation as "unfounded" and considered it part of the "repeated attempts" by the Venezuelan government to "compromise" Colombia in "false versions of alleged acts of force."
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