Former chief of intelligence services of Chavez called for a military rebellion against Maduro

"Here is one more soldier for the causes of freedom and democracy, useful for achieving the goal of restoring the constitutional order allowing us to call free elections," said General Hugo Carvajal in a series of videos that he posted on his Twitter account.

The soldier was a close collaborator of Chávez and has been facing Maduro for a few years.

Due to its pbadage for almost a decade under the direction of the Directorate General of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim) accumulated a series of complaints including crimes of torture, protection of terrorism and links to drug trafficking, according to various reports published in the world press.

A few weeks ago, the Venezuelan Parliament approved a broad amnesty to allow military officials and civil servants to contribute to the "defense of the Constitution", without specifying the type of crimes that would go unpunished with the implementation of this advantage.

For Carvajal, the constitutional order in Venezuela "began to get lost with the creation of the National Constituent Assembly, and then continued with the carrying out of rigged elections and ended up falling to the water on January 10 with the usurpation the power of Nicolás Maduro. "

In his videos, he wondered when the Venezuelan armed forces decided to "turn their backs on the people" and became "repressors of their liberties and defenders of political elites".

"Stop the course you are following," he added. in a paragraph addressed directly to the military high command.

"It depends on you, brothers in arms, how this ends, do not doubt that this is the good side of history," he added after making public his decision to offer Guaidó "one more soldier for the cause". of freedom and democracy "and to urge Maduro to badume responsibility for all the" miseries "that he brought to Venezuela.

"Gentlemen of the high command, it is impossible that this army, now in the hands of some generals subject to Cuban directives, has become the largest contributor to a system of dictatorial government," he added.