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Nicolás Maduro has ordered tonight (dawn in Spain) his chancellor, Jorge Arreaza, to contact the Madrid government to "take action on the matter" against the former political prisoner Leopoldo López, who was conspiring against his life since the Embassy of Spain in Caracas.

"He is conspiring (from the Embassy) to kill Venezuela's political and military leaders," the "son of Chávez" aired during his television address tonight. The president wants the Pedro Sánchez government to review the refugee status of the opposition leader.

The "town president" has included in this way the founder of Voluntad Popular, a refugee in the residence of the Spanish ambassador for 11 months, in the conspiracy plan devised by Chavista general Clíver Alcalá Cordones, which would also include US President Donald Trump; Colombian President Iván Duque and former coffee president Álvaro Uribe, always according to the Bolivarian version.

Both Maduro himself and General Alcalá, an exalted military officer close to Hugo Chávez, are among the 14 leaders of Chavismo against whom the United States Attorney General has announced today the initiation of legal actions for drug terrorism and corruption. For the first, he offers $ 15 million for information leading to his capture, and for the second, $ 10 million.

In his statements today to Colombian media from his residence in Barranquilla, Alcalá has assured that López did know his movements to confront the Bolivarian power. The retired general, a critic of Maduro for a couple of years, recognized Juan Guaidó as president in charge last year to later go into exile in Colombia.

"They want to kill me," denounced Maduro in his harangue, which he also took advantage of to despise the "vulgar and miserable action" taken in the United States against him, one of the news of the day in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. "An extravagantly extreme action against the honor of good Venezuelans, false accusations, as if it were racist cowboys of the 19th century," said the president.

"You are a miserable Donald Trump. New York mafia blackmailer who got his fortune from the gang wars," the "driver of victories" rambled on.

"My life is a social struggle on all fronts. If I have cultivated anything it is the honesty, morality, ethics of a revolutionary. We have fought the economic mafias of this country," defended Maduro, surrounded by Diosdado Cabello, number 2 of the revolution, and Tareck El Aissami, economic vice president. Both are singled out by the US Attorney General for their alleged membership in the Soles cartel, as is Maduro. US authorities offer $ 10 million for information leading to the arrest of both leaders of Chavismo.

"We are succeeding and the Empire is despairing. (Our response) is the indestructible civic-military-police union," continued the Bolivarian chief. "They could not, they will not be able to with us or our people. I will say it softly: we are prepared for anything. It is not Maduro, it is not Diosdado: it is a people," he said.

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