President Nicolás Maduro said the government of Trinidad and Tobago was alerted to the planning of a false flag operation in which CIA agents, in collaboration with Port of Spain, would justify an armed attack against Venezuela.
He commented that the "CIA's planned self-attack on one of its ships near Trinidad and Tobago" was intended to force "a Maine-style provocation to enter the war with Spain and take control of Cuba."
The president also compared the action uncovered by Venezuelan intelligence to the provocation in the Gulf of Tonkin, where the US launched a self-defense attack in the 60s, "to justify an endless war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives of Black Americans, Latinos, and poor whites."
He said they alerted the Trinidad and Tobago authorities because the US authorities were involved in the conspiracy and it wasn't worth alerting them. He commented that when they were alerted about an attempt to plant explosives at the US embassy in Caracas, "they protected their terrorists in Miami and their accomplices here."
Three terrorist operations dismantled
The president took the opportunity to denounce the Bolivarian Government's discovery and dismantling of three CIA-sponsored terrorist operations in the country:
1. Attack on Plaza Venezuela: "The first operation, which aimed to blow up Plaza de la Victoria against the fascism of the Soviet Union, there in Plaza Venezuela."
2. Attack on the former US Embassy: "The second was to plant an explosive device to attack the US Embassy in Venezuela. We dismantled it."
3. The Self-Attack Plan: The third is the recently dismantled self-attack plan, devised by the CIA, against US military vessels near Trinidad and Tobago: "The CIA behind the dirty work it has always done."
He added that between Saturday and Sunday a set of arrests of people related to CIA operations against our country, who have revealed the information that led to the unveiling of the false flag operation.
Finally, he said that the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad-Bissessar, is a pimp of imperialism, so she congratulated the people of the eastern states of the country, who protested against her this weekend.
