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The vice president of communication of the government of Nicolás Maduro, Jorge Rodríguez, denounced an alleged plot in which he implicated the Colombian government to allegedly attack several targets in the Venezuelan capital. The accusation was made during an address transmitted in public media this Saturday from the Miraflores Palace, headquarters of the presidency. According to Rodriguez, the alleged conspiracy, which he said was planned from paramilitary camps in Colombia, was revealed from the discovery of alleged explosives at two points west of the city. He said that in the wake of an intelligence operation, the authorities captured a Colombian-Venezuelan citizen whom he involved with leaders of the Venezuelan opposition in exile and military detainees to install explosives in Caracas. Rodriguez presented as the main evidence of his accusations the filmed statement of the captured man who in the recording says he has received orders from Colombia by a recognized Venezuelan retired military. The objectives included the Caracas Courthouse, according to the official. "We, through an intelligence operation, have achieved not only the geographical location of the camps where they train murderers and terrorists, but also the photographs of the facades of those camps," said Rodriguez, who later explained that such information was obtained. through the cell phone of the Colombian citizen they arrested. Without showing any other evidence, Rodriguez accused the government of Iván Duque to protect alleged "paramilitaries" who would conspire against Nicolás Maduro. "You are an accomplice of these murderers and terrorists," Rodriguez told the Colombian president. The government of Nicolás Maduro repeatedly accuses the government of Colombia of being involved in alleged destabilizing actions to overthrow Nicolás Maduro from the presidency. "Where is Mrs. Bachelet to take care of the human rights of all?" The Venezuelan vice president of communications questioned about his complaint. For its part, the Colombian government has not reacted to these accusations.

In the north of the Amazon another fire burns for years. Illegal mining has exploded in Venezuela in the last decade and in greater proportion since the signing in 2016 of the decree of the Orinoco Mining Arc, by the Nicolás Maduro regime, which opened the extraction of gold and other minerals with concessions to companies foreigners and nationals, with the intention - fall - of regularizing illegal mining, an endemic evil in the south of the country. 85% of the illegal mining points in that lung, which kept the world in suspense since the raging fires in Brazil and Bolivia began, are in the small portion of the Venezuelan Amazon. "The Orinoco Mining Arc, which occupies 12% of the national territory, is our fire in the Amazon," says environmentalist Alejandro Álvarez of the Clima 21 organization. "What was done on a small scale is now large-scale And it is complex to measure it with satellites because you must interpret what is happening in an area where there is cloudiness throughout the year, where 30-meter-high trees cover mining and large excavations around all the Guayana basins and where it is being used mercury to separate gold from other minerals, already present in all rivers. " The Amazonian Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information (RAISG) has been monitoring for several years the loss of forest cover of this large transboundary ecosystem that covers nine countries. Regional research indicates that by January of this year 1,781 mining points were concentrated in the Venezuelan portion of the Amazon, 345 square kilometers, an area equivalent to twice the city of Madrid. It is an area that has been growing since 2010, says Bibiana Sucre, director of Provita, an organization that together with the NGO Watanibe participates in the monitoring of the RAISG. The maps are available online and show that there is literally a minefield south of the huge Orinoco River. That is one of the greatest concerns of researchers. Illegal atomized mining and what has been allowed by the Government of Maduro, although there is no public information on the distribution of the deposits or transparency on the volumes of the extraction that, according to journalistic investigations in the area, mostly goes by the green roads and does not reach the coffers of the Central Bank of Venezuela. For Álvarez, the picture has worsened and gone out of control amid the deep political, economic and social crisis that Venezuela is going through. "20 years ago gold mining was concentrated in the Sifontes municipality of the Bolivar State. Because of the geology of the region there are the most important gold veins and there was a small-scale artisanal mining in which some indigenous communities were involved. What is now related to two effects: the increase in the price of gold in the world - which the trade war between the United States and China stimulates - and the economic debacle of Venezuela, which has driven survival mining with a massive devastation of the environment. and with human rights violations, "says Álvarez. "It is deforested so that the miners encamp and at the edge of the rivers, by the type of extraction. They are devastated between two and 10 hectares per mining point. Thus it becomes very difficult to make a categorization of the miners, which only in very little quantity they are artisanal. The majority are using machines, motor pumps and mercury with reports of contaminated po[CENSORED]tion through the bioaccumulation of the substance in consumer fish, "says Vilisa Morón, biologist and president of the Venezuelan Society of Ecology. "To have these deforestation numbers and this situation you have to have a lot of people doing mining and that is one of the great shame we have in the south of the Orinoco," he laments.

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Venezuela's border with Colombia is on "orange alert." Or at least that was what the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced at an event at a military study center in Caracas this week. And the president justified it by "the threat of aggression of Colombia against Venezuela." Why Duque links Maduro with FARC dissident guerrillas In addition, Maduro announced the execution between September 10 and 18 of military exercises called Sovereignty and Peace on the Colombian-Venezuelan border, as well as the deployment of a missile defense system there. The Venezuelan government accuses the Colombian government of preparing "false positives," as they call the cases in which extrajudicial executions are carried out by dejected combatants. From Colombia, President Iván Duque rejected Maduro's accusations. "Colombia does not attack anyone. This is a country that respects the territoriality of other nations," said Duque. How it all started? Relations between Colombia and Venezuela have been far from cordial for years and every now and then the tension increases. This latest dialectical escalation occurs following the video released on August 29 in which dissidents of the guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced their return to arms "in response to the betrayal of the Colombian state" peace process initiated in that country after the 2016 agreements. Shortly thereafter, the Colombian authorities claimed that the video had been recorded in Venezuelan territory and Duque said that Colombia was facing "a gang of narcoterrorists who have the shelter and support of the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro." Duque was echoing the well-known accusation that the Chavez high leadership has links with the guerrillas and drug trafficking. Then came the Venezuelan reaction blaming the Duque government for boycotting the peace process. Maduro's "orange alert" has been just the last episode of an old divergence. What does the "orange alert" mean? Shortly after Maduro's speech was over, many asked this question. Diosdado Cabello, president of the National Constituent Assembly and considered one of the most powerful leaders in Chavez Venezuela, said in his weekly television program that "it is the step in which the entire Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) enters a state of surveillance". According to Cabello, it had been made clear to the Colombian government and army that "if they enter Venezuela they will have an immediate military response." Duke rejects the lifting of "a gang of narcoterrorists" that links Maduro But Rocío San Miguel, president of the NGO Control Ciudadano, which monitors the actions of the Armed Forces and security forces in Venezuela, told Efecto Cocuyo digital media that "the alert does not exist as an operational concept within the National Armed Forces." "It is likely that Maduro has been confused with the issue of hurricanes," adds San Miguel.

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In the words of Elliot Abrams, US special envoy for Venezuela, they want the president "to have a dignified exit." He United States is willing not to charge or prosecute the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, in exchange for leaving power, according to Elliot Abrams, a special envoy for the Latin American country. As Abrams has stated in an interview with the New York Times, "it is not a persecution." "We want him to have a decent exit and leave," said the diplomat. Washington's offer comes a week after Donald Trump and Nicolás Maduro confirmed that "high-level" contacts are taking place between the two countries. In this regard, Abrams wanted to make it clear that there is no negotiation with Maduro or "a pattern of contacts", but "there have been intermittent messages." As the American explained, the messages have been "very rare" since late winter and the information they contained was doubtful. On the other hand, Abrams has clarified that in the event that there are finally new elections in Venezuela, the United States will not support them if Maduro or Juan Guaidó appear, which Washington was the first to recognize and support.

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