Earlier, the authorities announced that they had managed to prevent the entry of a group of mercenaries who intended to carry out a coup d’état in the republic and kill President Nicolas Maduro.
Venezuela asks the UN Security Council to hold an emergency debate in connection with the alleged invasion allegedly organized by the U.S. and Colombia to change the power in the country. This is stated in a letter from Venezuelan postpresident Samuel Moncada to the President of the Security Council, a copy of which is in the possession of TASS.
In a 14-page appeal Moncada informs the UN Security Council that “from May 3 to 4, a group of mercenaries and terrorists organized, financed and protected by the governments of Colombia and the United States, illegally entered Venezuelan territory.
“In this regard, I would like to request <…> an urgent discussion [at the UN Security Council], which is necessary, first, to recognize the act of aggression by Bogotá and Washington against Venezuela <…>, which was intended to undermine security in the region, and second, to issue a clear statement condemning the threats of use of force in any form against Venezuela.”
On May 3, the Venezuelan authorities announced that they managed to prevent the infiltration from Colombia of a group of mercenaries 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, 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.