Maduro says they have captured a US spy near an oil refinery

• Venezuela Those memories of the GDR ...

Nicolás Maduro advanced in a televised message to the country the capture of an

in the vicinity of the

.

It would be a marine who worked for the

and whose mission was to monitor the oil and gasoline plants in Falcón state, more than 500 kilometers from Caracas.

"The spy was serving at the CIA bases in Iraq. There is all the evidence, the photographs and the videos. He

, a large amount of dollars in cash and other items that we have passed directly to the Public Ministry . It is in the declaration phase, "claimed the 'son of Chávez'.

"It is a war of the empire against Venezuela, they want to prevent Venezuela from producing petroleum derivatives and gasoline, they have reached that level of madness," added Maduro, who assured that

, the largest from the country.

Venezuela suffers a new petrol shortage that has even reached Caracas, the most protected area of ​​the country.

The little fuel that is obtained in the interior of the country is at

and almost always in exchange for dollars.

The destruction of the oil industry has made Venezuela, the country with the largest black gold reserves on the planet,

.

The US sanctions have prevented other financial operations for the import of the fuel, except for the shipment of five ships from Iran in June.

Currently, the arrival of three ships sent by the

government is expected

, which has also been in charge of starting up the Venezuelan refinery, so far without success.

The proximity of the parliamentary elections, scheduled for December, has intensified the usual

of the Venezuelan president, who has accused US President Donald Trump of

.

"I am at war 24 hours of my life, with a sniper pointing my head from the north," complained the "driver of victories," as Bolivarian propaganda calls it.

Two former American Green Berets,

, were sentenced last month to 20 years in prison by the revolutionary courts on charges of participating in

, the failed landing of rebel military and police.

Another American, Mormon missionary

, spent two years in the dungeons of Chavismo accused of being a "chief spy for the CIA."

There was never any evidence against Holt, beyond some photographs hunting in his native Utah and his various trips to Washington (not to the District of Columbia, but to the border state with Utah).

This Mormon was near Caracas because he

, with whom he later married.

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