According to the authorities of the republic, a total of 45 participants were detained after the attempted invasion.
The Venezuelan army has detained eight more mercenaries who had infiltrated its territory, reported on Sunday on Twitter of the Armed Forces of the Republic.
“Marine Corps units <…> found and detained eight mercenary terrorists in the evening,” reads the report. According to the authorities, a total of 45 participants were detained after the attempted invasion.
May 3, Venezuelan authorities reported that they managed to prevent the infiltration of a group of mercenaries from Colombia, who intended to carry out a coup d’état in the Bolivarian Republic and kill President Nicolas Maduro.
The detainees included two American citizens. On State television, President Maduro showed their documents to Luke Alexander Denman and Ayran Berry. The first of them told during the interrogation that together with his accomplices he was to take control of the airport and bring the Venezuelan leader there to take him to the United States.
U.S. President Donald Trump said that Washington had nothing to do with a group of people arrested in Venezuela, and that the U.S. would not hide the fact of the operation against this country if it was planned.