September 16, 2024 - The Venezuelan government has accused the CIA of being behind an alleged plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro.

August 25, 2023 - Mexico City, Mexico, September 5, 2022 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro condemned the assassination attempt against Argentine Vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and expressed his solidarity with the ...

September 15, 2024 - "These two detainees even tell us about a group of mercenaries they are looking for to bring to Venezuela with very clear objectives to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, myself, and another group of comrades who are leading our party and our revolution."

September 15, 2024 - BOGOTA, Colombia — Three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech citizen were arrested Saturday after Venezuelan officials accused them of coming to the South American country to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro.

2 weeks ago - Following the failed 2019 Venezuelan uprising attempt led by Guaidó against Maduro on 30 April, Guaidó's movement lost momentum. William Neuman wrote in the 2022 book Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela that, with waning support and other options not materializing, Guaidó and López sought "another way out of Venezuela's impasse".

January 23, 2024 - Authorities in Venezuela have arrested 32 individuals, including soldiers and civilians, for their alleged role in a plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro, the prosecutor's office said Monday.

August 6, 2018 - As with everything else in Venezuela lately, however, Saturday’s attack was bungled. Superheated rhetoric and outlandish claims abound in the country’s current political climate, and much of the initial reporting on the attack was also waggish and cynical. Some suggested that the attempted assassination was a fiction concocted by Maduro to justify a crackdown, or that it wasn’t a drone attack at all but was, rather, an accident caused by an exploding butane-gas cylinder in a nearby apartment building.

August 5, 2018 - Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says he has survived an assassination attempt involving explosive drones.

April 16, 2024 - REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/File ... 16 (Reuters) - A renowned Venezuelan activist was arrested for his alleged involvement in a reported assassination attempt against President Nicolas Maduro last month, the country's Attorney ...

September 16, 2024 - Three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech citizen were arrested Saturday after Venezuelan officials accused them of coming to the South American country to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro.

December 12, 2023 - The incident came at a time of political and economic crisis in Venezuela, a once-wealthy oil power that is suffering runaway inflation and shortages of food and medicine that have driven hundreds of thousands to flee abroad. Saab identified the two detained officers as Col. Pedro Zambrano Hernandez and Gen. Alejandro Perez Gamez of the National Guard. He did not describe their suspected roles. A 29-year-old opposition lawmaker, Juan Requesens, is also under arrest and charged with treason and attempted homicide.

September 15, 2024 - They contacted French mercenaries, they contacted mercenaries from Eastern Europe, and they are in an operation to try to attack our country.” He added that 400 rifles originating from the US were seized and deemed the possible assassination attempt as a “terrorist act.” · Cabello further added that the three Americans and one Czech national arrested in the matter were linked to the alleged plot to kill the President. He implicated the intelligence agencies of the US and Spain, along with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, in the plan.

December 15, 2024 - Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello accused the man–along with three other Americans, two Spaniards, and a Czech citizen–of conspiring to kill Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

3 weeks ago - On 6 August 2018, Prosecutor General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, announced that two individuals alleged to be the drone pilots were arrested and "will be charged with the crimes of treason and intentional homicide" in addition to other crimes. Shortly after midnight VST on the morning of Tuesday, 7 August, Maduro said that he had "hard evidence" of "the Colombian oligarchy" planning the assassination, and that he would share it "in the next few hours".

May 5, 2020 - ... Two U.S. citizens were arrested in Venezuela yesterday. President Nicolas Maduro went on TV and said they led - or tried to lead - an invasion of his country, overthrow him and assassinate him.