Venezuelan protesters discuss explosives in video
Sep 16, 10:22 PM EDT
Venezuelan protesters discuss explosives in video
By JORGE RUEDA and JOSHUA GOODMAN
Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Two Venezuelan activists recently deported by Colombia have surfaced in a video that purportedly shows them discussing plans to stockpile weapons and launch attacks on government targets in apparent attempt to destabilize President Nicolas Maduro's rule.
The video, which aired Monday night on a TV program known for battering the government's foes, apparently contains excerpts from a Skype video conference Lorent Saleh and Gabriel Valles had with an unidentified third person, whose voice is distorted.
It's not clear when the recording took place or how it was obtained. Its veracity could not be independently confirmed.
But in it the two students, apparently speaking from inside Colombia, freely boast of all sorts of covert plans. Operating under a diplomatic "facade" provided by a human rights group, Saleh remarks on plans for weapons training in Colombia's capital and how he obtained two bricks of C4 explosives to "blow up" liquor stores, bars and eventually storm the offices of the National Electoral Council in the western state of Tachira, a hotbed of anti-government unrest earlier this year.
"We're missing the ammunition and rifles but we're going to arrange this with the people from Bogota," Saleh says at one point.
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