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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has summoned the head of the Bolivian National Intelligence Service (Sebin), General Manuel Cristopher Figuera, who, in the midst of the frustrated military military uprising against the president, has expressed his dissent with the Chavez government. the local press, was arrested.

Maduro announced last night, in a televised message, that he had decided to replace him with General Gustavo González López, who had commanded the Sebin until six months ago.

Cristopher Figuera was arrested yesterday, according to military sources quoted by the digital newspaper Runrunes.
Other Venezuelan media reported that the Maduro government held him responsible for the release of the leader of the anti-Chávez movement, Leopoldo López, who was serving a prison sentence at his home.

Lopez was released at dawn yesterday, at the beginning of a military civilian uprising aimed at expelling Maduro from the government, which failed.

In the afternoon, while there still was no official information on the results of the uprising, several media published a letter in which Cristopher Figuera confirms his loyalty to Maduro but notes "l & # 39, state of deterioration "in which Venezuela lives.

"No one is aware of the deteriorating state of all orders in which the country is submerged and, it would be irresponsible of me to blame it solely on the American empire," he said. the soldier in the note.

"Know that some of those who have called me sold, that all together, or that they collect everything that they have stolen and what they dream of flying, are enough to buy my honor and dignity, because it is a value, not a price, and the values ​​are universal in all the cultures of the earth and are neither bought nor sold, "he added.

Cristopher Figuera, general of division of the army, was counselor to President Hugo Chávez for 12 years, then deputy director of the Directorate of Military Intelligence, among other indictments.

He was responsible for the Sebin since late October 2018, when Maduro had dismissed González López from office after the scandal provoked by the death of city councilor Fernando Albán, imprisoned at the headquarters of the intelligence agency.

"Cristopher Figuera represents more torture, more human rights violations and more persecution against those of us who want change in Venezuela," said the antichavista party Primero Justicia (PJ).

González López, general-in-chief of the army, led the Sebin between February 2014 and October 2018 and, between March 2015 and August 2016, he was simultaneously Minister of the Interior and Justice.

The United States has included them in their lists of people sanctioned in 2015 for alleged human rights violations and in 2017 for alleged links with drug trafficking.