Intelligence officials block construction of Venezuelan National Assembly following alleged bomb threat

The Venezuelan National Assembly denounced officials of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) entered the building for a supposed explosive device placed inside.

It is about about 15 troops, which block the entrance to the legislative palace. This Tuesday, the Assembly was to meet.

"At the present time, 15 Sebin officials enter the Federal Legislature to place an explosive device inside the premises, no official of Parliament can enter," denounced Roberto Campos, member of the team of the Deputy Secretary of Parliament.

"Representatives of the National Assembly who enter the legislative palace tell me about fifteen officials Sebin. The excuse: a supposed explosive device", said, meanwhile, the MP Biagio Pilieri on Twitter.

The legislature had called for a ordinary plenary to discuss the disappearance of the first vice president, Edgar Zambrano, illegitimate arrests, persecutions and raids against deputies. But, for "the military takeover of the Federal Legislative Building", the session was "resumed" on Wednesday the 15th.

At the meeting tomorrow, they will also address the destruction of purchasing power and the salary Venezuelan, and the Draft agreement the restoration of the validity of the American Convention on Human Rights.

The Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, He condemned the outbreak of Chavez's forces in the palace and called this maneuver a "diversion" of the legislative palace.

In the meantime, the official Twitter account of the presidency in charge of Venezuela said: "The usurper regime continues to prevent access to the federal legislative palace"

For his part, the MP Jorge Millán In his social networks, he said: "The Piquete de la PNB prevents us from entering the federal legislative palace." With their acts of intimidation, they will not stop us, we will continue to work for Venezuela and the cessation of the usurpation.

The acting president of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, also used his social networks around noon to refute the new abuses of the Chavez regime: "They are trying to kidnap the legislature while the dictator is rootingin a palace where he should not be, suspecting everyone around him. Today, he again demonstrates his fear of the legitimacy of the National Assembly. "

In a second message, he added: "Cowardly as he is, he threatens his band of political persecutions not only of the deputies elected by the people, but also to the workers of the National Assembly"

Finally, he added: "He believes that power is in buildings, in drawers, in a bunch of keys. The power that they had once lost when they lost the people. And this NA has been elected by the people and will defend its legitimacy! "