{"id":161110,"date":"2024-09-15T11:15:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T15:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=161110"},"modified":"2024-09-15T11:15:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T15:15:29","slug":"us-navy-sailor-accused-of-plotting-to-assassinate-nicolas-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=161110","title":{"rendered":"US Navy Sailor accused of plotting to assassinate Nicol\u00e1s Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Veterans-of-the-American-and-Venezuelan-armies-riding-boats-on-a-river.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-161111 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Veterans-of-the-American-and-Venezuelan-armies-riding-boats-on-a-river-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Veterans-of-the-American-and-Venezuelan-armies-riding-boats-on-a-river-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Veterans-of-the-American-and-Venezuelan-armies-riding-boats-on-a-river-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Veterans-of-the-American-and-Venezuelan-armies-riding-boats-on-a-river-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Veterans-of-the-American-and-Venezuelan-armies-riding-boats-on-a-river-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Veterans-of-the-American-and-Venezuelan-armies-riding-boats-on-a-river.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Venezuelan government official is accusing the CIA, and Spain&#8217;s National Intelligence Center, of being involved with a plot to assassinate Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. In addition to the arrested US Sailor, two other US citizens, two Spanish citizens, and one Czech citizen were arrested. Venezuelan authorities also seized 400 US rifles related to the alleged plot.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From CNN:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Interior minister Diosdado Cabello claimed that the alleged plot was led by the CIA, and aimed at assassinating Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>The accusation comes as Venezuela&#8217;s opposition, multiple Latin American leaders and the United States refuse to recognize Maduro&#8217;s disputed election win, which has been followed by deadly protests during which thousands were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>In a news conference on Saturday, Cabello identified the purported Navy SEAL as Wilbert Casta\u00f1eda, and claimed he was the leader of the operation. The minister also named two other detained Americans: David Estrella and Aaron Barrett Logan.<\/p>\n<p>CNN earlier this month reported that Casta\u00f1eda was arrested in Caracas in August. At the time US authorities said he was a sailor who had traveled to Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Venezuela&#8217;s attorney general Tarek William Saab told CNN the sailor was a Mexican-American citizen who was being investigated for entering the country without proper documentation.<\/p>\n<p>Cabello said that in addition to the Americans, two Spanish citizens &#8212; Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Basoa Valdovinos and Andr\u00e9s Mart\u00ednez Adasme &#8212; and one Czech citizen, Jan Darmovzal, were arrested. Venezuelan authorities have also seized 400 US rifles linked to the alleged plot, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Torres, M. (2024, September 15). US says claims of CIA plot to kill Maduro are &#8216;categorically false&#8217; after Venezuela arrests six foreigners. <em>CNN<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/14\/americas\/venezuela-arrests-americans-seizes-rifles-intl-latam\/index.html\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Venezuelan government official is accusing the CIA, and Spain&#8217;s National Intelligence Center, of being involved &hellip; <a title=\"US Navy Sailor accused of plotting to assassinate Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=161110\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Navy Sailor accused of plotting to assassinate Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-affairs","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}