Maduro: "We are after the capture of the golpistas" – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro said on Wednesday that the justice "was looking for" those responsible for the military uprising that his government had defeated yesterday, and that they would "pay sooner or later" imprisonment for the crime of treason.

"Yesterday he tried to enforce the betrayal of a handful of people and noticed what had happened.A handful that was captured by the right, I have the evidence in hand of the way they captured them.They flee between embbadies in embbadies, "he said at an event marking Labor Day.

"We are after the capture of the putschists who were left alone and defeated," threatened Maduro.

He said that he did not think of going to Cuba

"Let me tell you (in the Trump environment) that you have been cheated and that you have cheated in turn the President of the United States, Donald, Trump, and they went into a pot of lies, a pot of intrigues that they had intended to launch against us and he came back against them after a terrible defeat of the coup attempt, "said Maduro in an act in front of his supporters gathered to celebrate May Day.

The president criticized US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the White House's security advisor, John Bolton, and the US envoy. for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, came out "to say that I was ready, that I was on a plane and that I was going to Cuba" before the Russians "pushed" him out of l & # 39; air.

"They go out to say that the honorable officials of the state had reached an agreement with them for a coup d'etat"he said before saying that they had all cheated Trump and "believed in his false news".

Abrams explained in an interview with Efe that he had discovered "that many of them had turned off their cell phones".

In particular, he expressed frustration with three Chavez figures, including Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino, who reportedly negotiated with the opposition for months to turn his back on Maduro and support the Speaker of Parliament, Juan Guaidó , recognized as such. acting president for 54 nations.

"They talked, talked and talked and, when the time came for action, they were not willing to do it," Abrams criticized.

According to Washington, the Supreme Court President (TSJ), Maikel Moreno, and the commander of the Presidential Honor Guard and the Directorate General of Military Counter-Intelligence (Dgcim), Iván Rafael Hernández Dala, also took part to these interviews.

For all these reasons, Maduro badured that "Venezuelan putschists are not only wrong" and the nearly 40 soldiers who accompanied them, but also "to US imperialism and made him believe" that he was going to "surrender".

The opponents attack

"They are fleeing between embbady and embbady"Maduro said in front of thousands of supporters, stationed near the Miraflores Presidential Palace, in reference to opposition leader Leopoldo López, who he did not mention directly.

"Justice looks for them and sooner or later they will pay in prison for their betrayal and their crime", he added.

Lopez deceived Tuesday the sentence of almost 14 years that he was serving at home and accompanied the Venezuelan Speaker of the Parliament, Juan Guaidó – that more than 50 governments have recognized as interim president – in his speech to the armed forces yesterday, to give Maduro backs.

On the morning of Monday, he participated in several opposition rallies east of Caracas, and then went as a guest in the ambbadador 's residence. from Spain to Caracas, Jesus Silva.

Maduro's words also referred to Guaidó, who had directed the opposition protests in Caracas that same day and whose whereabouts are unknown.

Venezuelan justice has already opened two lines of investigation against the head of the legislative power: one for proclaiming an interim government and the other for failures that have plunged virtually the entire country in the dark and paralyzed it last March.

I've also matured He accused the White House security advisor, John Bolton, of "personally" leading the uprising of some 20 soldiers, which he described as "a skirmish favorable to the coup d'etat ".

"This is what I denounce and I demand that John Bolton's illegal actions and coup against Venezuelan democracy be investigated in the United States," he said.