Bolivarian National Intelligence Service

Entonces, hay que entender que cuando se analizan este tipo de delitos donde se habla de tortura, de asfixia, de electrocutados, hay una cadena de mando.

Y Delcy Rodríguez, para el momento de los hechos que le están imputando a Nicolás Maduro y a Cilia Flores, era la vicepresidente de la República, quien tiene por debajo al SEBIN, a la DGCIM y otros componentes de seguridad que son los, los cuerpos encargados directamente de ejecutar esas torturas.

Entonces, en definitiva, a pesar de que existe un gran miedo de que ellos pudieran salir de, como decimos los venezolanos, lisos o sin ningún tipo de consecuencias, la realidad es que están por todos lados rodeados de las consecuencias de sus actos.

Adicionalmente, Estados Unidos ha estado muy meticulosamente capturando a personas claves del entramado criminal que le ha permitido al régimen chavista fortalecerse económicamente.

Additionally, intelligence reporting from April 2004 indicated Hugo Chávez stated his objective was to prevent the election of a sitting US president." This goes through this in further detail.

"Prior to Venezuela's 2012 election, intelligence reporting described Chávez's intelligence services, military counterintelligence, and the Boveilla-- uh, Bolivarian Intelligence Service as working with the National Election Council and Smartmatic to develop a specific manipulation plan deploying altered machines to roughly 300 voting centers in pro-Chávez strongholds to secure a margin of about 1.5 million votes.

It described a technical method creating a second set of parallel virtual machines that would replicate legitimate vote data while substituting manipulated results engineered specifically to survive standard audit procedures." That's a documented election manipulation plan, and this is the same company whose voting system now runs some of the largest jurisdictions in the United States of America.

So they were setting up machines that ran parallel to the machines people were using, but they were specifically designed to deliver a vote margin for Hugo Chávez.

I mean, look, and then in, uh, 2012, uh, th- and this is a paragraph they hope you skip, I think.

Sources reported that Chavez's intelligence services, the DGCIM and the SEBIN, worked with the National Electoral Council and Smartmatic on plans to manipulate the presidential election with pre-programmed machines, targeting about 300 voting centers in pro-Chavez areas, uh, that margin like we spoke about earlier, one and a half million votes, and Chavez of course won by 1.6 million votes.

Uh, and then of course, he report- he congratulated the team for implementing the plan.

So this...

I read the first two paragraphs of Mary's column.

Venezuela's Bolivarian National Intelligence Service last week detained a former mayor of the city of Torres in the state of Lara after he emerged from giving an interview with local media.

Lara's capital city, Javier Oropesa, had arrived in the country 48 hours before after two years in exile in Spain.

Six hours and many protests later, he was released.