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"Venezuela is on its feet defeating the pandemic and terrorism." Nicolás Maduro appeared yesterday at the Telematic Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to announce two alleged revolutionary victories: the failed invasion to attempt his life, promoted by the United States, Colombia and Juan Guaidó, legitimate president of Parliament, and the momentary defeat of Covid-19.

A victory, the latter, which he attributes to the support of the World Health Organization (WHO), Cuba, Russia and China, in a very common totum revolutum in revolution. Maduro proposed without batting an eye that the controversial Tedros Adhanom , WHO director, be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize , whom he defended from the "attacks" launched from the US.

It was an important appearance for the 'son of Chávez', who presided over the movement until last year and who sought to obtain automatic solidarity from those present in exceptional circumstances. Chavismo has adapted its resistance propaganda to explain the failed landing of a dozen exiled military personnel on the coast near Caracas.

"The main objective was to kill me in the midst of the pandemic," said Maduro, who has previously denounced several dozen alleged operations to carry out an assassination, without all evidence.

Foreign invasion, assassination attempt, coup d'état, as if it were an updated version of the historic Bay of Pigs. Despite the opacity of the information, it is known that eight rebel soldiers died in the ambush that the special police forces (FAES) set up during the morning. They were waiting for them.

One of the deceased is Captain Robert Colina , known as 'Pantera' and one of Major General Clíver Alcalá's trusted men . This military man, close to Hugo Chávez , remains today in the United States in the hands of the DEA Drug Agency, which included him in his most wanted list with Maduro himself.

Ten rifles, two machine guns, six trucks, a speedboat, a pistol and cartridges, together with communication devices, make up the seized war material, considerably less than what Fidel Castro's companions were carrying when Granma was landed last century in the Cuban coasts.

Despite the evident failure of the landing, the 'Gideon operation' continues, as the rebels have made known on their social networks. In fact, a second boat was intercepted yesterday on the Aragua coast, also close to the capital, according to local media. Another group of rebels was arrested.

At the forefront of all of them for the moment remains Captain Antonio Sequea, whose whereabouts are unknown, who claims to "advance their objectives with 17 assault teams, each with its commander at the head and support from international allies."

Both Maduro and his prosecutor pointed to both the United States and Guaidó. Against the latter they claim to have "strong evidence as an intellectual author", in an alleged attempt to reissue "what has already happened in Iraq, Syria and Libya," Saab announced.

The opposition has distanced itself from the action, although it recognizes that there are "patriotic soldiers" ready to fight against the dictatorship. Guaidó considers that what happened on Sunday in Macuto is a government staging to cover up the Guanare prison massacre. Last Friday, fifty prisoners were killed during the repression of the protest caused by the inmates, who complained that the jailers were stealing the food that their relatives brought them.

In his speech to the presidents of the NAM, Maduro did not mention the new prison tragedy, but he did take advantage of his digital appearance to insist on his supposed success in the fight against the pandemic. Statistics provided so far from Caracas lack credibility, according to Parliament. Maduro insisted that 482,953 diagnostic tests have been carried out , "which gives us 16,098 tests per million inhabitants." These would be rapid PDR tests and only 6,000 PCRs, given the very limited capacity of the laboratory where they are performed.

The Bolivarian Government assures that in order to face the coronacrisis it has had the support of the WHO, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the UN Children's Fund (Unicef), in addition to the medicines and supplies arrived from its allies Russian and Chinese.

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