United States: Chavistas negotiating Maduro exit "extinguished cell"

The US envoy for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, said Wednesday that the high office of the Venezuelan president's government, Nicolás Maduro, which would have been negotiated with the opposition, the output of the chief agent has "turned off their cell phones". "I found out that many of them had turned off their cell phones," acknowledged Abrams in an interview with EFE.

"I am referring to a lot of people at the highest levels of the Venezuelan government," said one official when asked about people who did not answer the phone.

This Tuesday, the national security advisor John Bolton badured that the interim president of Venezuela Juan Guaidó He had conversations with the Minister of Defense Vladimir Padrino López, the president of the Supreme Court of Justice Maikel Moreno and the director of counterintelligence Iván Hernández Dala.

In a statement made to the White House during the day in Venezuela, the security advisor of Donald Trump He revealed that Padrino López, Moreno and Hernández Dala had negotiated the departure of Nicolás Maduro's power and that "as all Venezuela knows, they pledged to support the overthrow of Maduro".

Abrams explained that Padrino, Moreno and Hernández Dala had participated in negotiations with the opposition, saying that Washington would not participate and foreseeing a political transition with "guarantees to respect the dignity of citizens like Maduro so that they can leave with honor ". .

"They spoke, talked and talked and when the time came to act, they were not willing to do it," Abrams criticized. "Why, what was the role of the Russians, what was the role of the Cubans? We are trying to find answers to these questions now, but we know that there have been some arrests of intelligence and intelligence corps leaders. # 39; army. "He added.

Later, in dialogue with the chain VPIAbrams said that "almost all the high command" was involved in the negotiations and that they "recognized Juan Guaidó as acting president". "There is a document with 15 points and talks about guarantees for the army," he explained.

"Maduro did not take part in this negotiation and maybe he discovered it.That's why they decided to act now," he said. stated about the date on which the "Libertad" operation took place. Abrams said that he did not know if there was a fixed date "May 1 or May 15".

Yesterday, Abrams explained that "in the past two months, there have been interesting negotiations between Venezuelans, within the regime and outside the return to the Constitution." In the negotiations, it was agreed that Padrino, Moreno and Hernandez Dala would maintain their position once Guaidó took power, said Abrams. "The agreement was that they were going to keep their positions, but I think the important thing is to know that it was not something suddenly, but that it was part of it. a long process of trying to re-establish the Constitution and conduct peaceful protests led by Juan Guaidó and negotiations, "he said.

The Venezuelan government has not confirmed the arrest of any intelligence or military leaders for the Guaidó uprising on Tuesday and has led to mbad demonstrations in which one person was killed and about 80 injured, including eight security forces loyal to Maduro.

"What I think, is that from now on, Maduro should know that he does not have the support of those who have promised him and even stand by his side, now every one of them knows that he has to leave, "Abrams said. .