The capture of the former Chavista leader and lady, Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Floresby US forces through a lightning operation remains in the spotlight. And even more so, from those related to the regime.
The Chavista collectives, the so-called armed arms of the revolution, are looking for, and hope to capture, the person who, allegedly, betrayed the Venezuelan regime so that the Delta Force they got hold of him.
The betrayal “had to come from something very close to our commander,” one of the groups insisted. “We want to know what happened there”he added. According to the newspaper The National, Jorge Suareza militant of these groups, said goodbye to his family and left for combat.
Suárez points out that he doesn’t know who he is, “but we know there is a betrayal“. These groups resurfaced as part of the legacy of Hugo Chávez, who would govern the country between 1999 and 2013.
These groups, and according to themselves, work for their “communities in sports, cultural and educational activities”, but they do not leave their priority behind either, the defense of the so-called “Bolivarian revolution”.
Frustration after capture
The Venezuelan militant says that with the first detonations they took to the streets, setting up checkpoints, waiting for “follow instructions of our leaders.
A member of another group, the Red Beret, maintains that he was left with a great “frustration, courage and desire to fight” after January 3, the day of Nicolás Maduro’s capture.
“What we don’t understand is how the anti-aircraft system failed“We don’t know what happened to the rocket launcher system,” commented the militant, Wilkiams, 43, questioning the Venezuelan response to the air attack that shook the international political table.
“There were many betrayals”
Like the other militant, Suárez, he considers that there were “many betrayals”. However, they do not distrust the interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, who inherited power and around whom the “collectives” close ranks.
The betrayal “had to come from something very close to our commander,” he insists. “We want to know what happened there”. “It (the raid) was so perfect that we didn’t realize it. And we still don’t know who betrayed us, how they betrayed us, it was something so quick…”, he adds.
And he claims not to be afraid of the United States: “We do not believe in the threats that (the Americans) are going to come, They are going to sit down, they are going to take the crude oil out of ushe maintains. “Here they are going to have to kill us,” he concludes.
The capture of Maduro
Named as Absolute Resolutionthe mission mobilized more than 150 aircraft – a variety of fighters, specialized electronic jamming aircraft, B-1 supersonic bombers and others designed to detect early warning of missile launches –, which took off from twenty different US-controlled military bases in the Western Hemisphere.
A previous cyber attack turned off the lights of Caracas, and the aircraft managed to disable the air defenses of the Venezuelan capital in record time. Without opposition, MH-47 Chinooks and MH-60 Black Hawks helicopters transported the elite troops of the Delta Force to the fortified complex where Maduro and his wife were resting, Cilia Flores.
They both jumped out of bed to try to reach an armored room inside the bunker. “They didn’t make it”Trump would boast hours later in the live broadcast of Fox News. Even if they had succeeded, the command had blowtorches to cut steel barriers.