"President Obama imposed sanctions on a number of Venezuelans yesterday, including - among others - the woman prosecuting Caracas MayorAntonio Ledezma Diaz, Katherine Nayarith Haringhton Padron. Apparent intelligence officers seized Ledezma on February 20, and since then, Nicolas Maduro, has been tying Ledezma's seizure to a purported coup plan launched by exiles in the US, but also using the tools of American hegemony."
"President Maduro played the audio of a conversation held between Carlos Manuel Osuna Saraco, a former Venezuelan politician living in New York, and a soldier, in which Osuna dictates the statement that the rebel soldiers should read out during the coup. The Venezuelan leader informed viewers that he would soon call upon the United States to extradite the suspect Osuna for trial in his home country."
"Maduro also showed a copy of a new "100-day Plan for Transition", designed by the coup plotters and the opposition, which stipulated a series of measures which would be implemented by the planned governing junta. The plan would take effect immediately after the coup, calling for early elections and the privatization of all public services. The transitional government would request all of the current Venezuelan officials to turn themselves into the police within a period of 180 days. It also requested every Cuban worker within the government to turn themselves in unarmed to their local police station. The plan also contemplated a role for the IMF, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank to intervene in the Venezuelan economy."
President Obama imposed sanctions on several Venezuelans, including prosecutor Katherine Nayarith Haringhton. Apparent intelligence officers seized Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma on February 20. President Maduro linked Ledezma's seizure to a purported coup plan allegedly launched by exiles in the United States and framed the matter in terms of American hegemony. Maduro played audio of an alleged conversation between Carlos Manuel Osuna Saraco and a soldier and said he would seek Osuna's extradition from the United States. Maduro revealed a "100-day Plan for Transition" calling for immediate early elections, privatization of public services, officials to surrender within 180 days, Cuban workers to turn themselves in unarmed, and involvement by the IMF, World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank. U.S. officials publicly accused Maduro of fabricating some intelligence.
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