‘They come here to plant bombs and kill people’

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has described José María Basoa Valdovinos and Andrés Martínez Adasme, the Basques jailed for their alleged ties to the Venezuelan opposition, as “terrorists”, accusing them of preparing a plan to assassinate the president and has assured that They are ‘undercover agents’ from the Spanish National Intelligence Centre (CNI).

Maduro has stated that this is the case “terrorists”, who, according to their relatives, were tourists, in “their libertarian times they plant bombs”: “It’s a new kind of tourism: adventure tourism. They come here to plant bombs and kill people. “Explosive tourism”he said ironically in his intervention on the program ‘Con Maduro+’.

Likewise, he has claimed that “the prisoners have been convicted and confessed” and that the “evidence” shown is not “even ten percent of the full evidence already in the hands of the judicial authorities” and that it involves “peaceful tourists” of “various” European nationalities “who came to plant bombs and kill.”

Maduro has assured that “the hegemonic media of the Spanish right” have tried to “victimize the murderers, the terrorists and the perpetrators.”Now it turns out they were good guys, tourists who were walking and who were captured and disappeared by the Venezuelan dictatorship,” he said.

In addition, Maduro has stated that “his relatives or friends, or the CNI and the Spanish government, will not come out and say they are agents and extradite them.” In addition to Basoa and Martínez, three Americans were also arrested, one of them a Marine and a Czech citizen, and 400 American rifles were seized.