Sunday, January 11, 2015

Bomb Destroys 8 Vehicles of Venezuela State Telephone Firm Cantv

1/11/15

CARACAS – Eight vehicles of the Venezuelan state telephone company Cantv were destroyed by a bomb launched by unknown persons before dawn in a parking lot in the northeastern city of Puerto Ordaz.

The Attorney General’s Office said in a communique that the attack was perpetrated at “approximately 3:00 a.m. Saturday” by “a group of people” who launched “an explosive device in the company’s installations” that set fire to eight vehicles.

The Web site noticias24/venezuela published several photos in which eight vehicles are seen in flames, and recalled that another 26 met the same fate during the anti-government protests in the first three months of 2014.

Security agents of the Cantv, the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), the CICPC scientific and investigative police and the Sebin intelligence service seek “to determine the responsibilities in this attack against the telephone company that serves Venezuelans,” the private Web site said.

The incident came at a time when the Democratic Unity Roundtable, or MUD, the alliance in opposition to the Nicolas Maduro government, has denied planning any anti-government protests associated with violence, nor with the supposed national strike attributed to it.

“The government mounted an operation on social media to talk about a supposed strike... we want to say in the name of the MUD that no member of the opposition has anything to do with that strike call,” said the executive secretary of the alliance, Jesus Torrealba.

In response to the MUD, the vice president of the Maduro government, Jorge Arreaza, said on Saturday in a televised meeting that Torrealba was “shameless” and had the “effrontery” to lie.

“We’re watching them – make no mistake because there are still plenty of cells available in (the prison of) Ramo Verde for those who dare to disturb the peace with political violence,” Arreaza warned with a reference to the jail where opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez is being held.

Maduro, currently on a tour of China and other countries, blames Lopez for the violence that occurred in the wave of anti-government protests last year, which left 43 people dead and hundreds injured and arrested.

“I’m calling from here, from China and Cochinchina, from everywhere, once and a thousand times, for work, for productivity, for union, and that we isolate the lunatics and fascists,” Maduro said Saturday to the reporters accompanying him on his international tour.


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