Tarek William Saab: “Violent Attempts of the Opposition Against the Venezuelan State are a Hybrid War”

General Prosecutor of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, Aug 21, 2024 Photo: VTV

August 21, 2024 Hour: 7:23 pm

The Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, attended this Wednesday, August 21, the meeting with the Diplomatic Corps, from the headquarters of the Chancellery in Casa Amarilla, where he described as a “hybrid war” the coup attempts against the government of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, by the Venezuelan ultra-right.

In this regard, the prosecutor stated that they used mechanisms such as “Lawfare”, as well as messages of hatred and discrimination against a political party, including attempts at judicial war, military and police uprisings. “Within the hybrid war, there is talk of using common criminals for actions that instrumentalize the ultimate objective, which in this case was to try to overthrow a legitimately constituted government”. In turn, he stressed that fascism seeks the extermination of a human group and “it is what they want to do with the Chavista group”.

He pointed out that social networks have impacted the human mind to turn good into bad, the unjust into just, as seen in Venezuela during this last time, this in reference to the violent acts occurred in the country, after the presidential elections of July 28, where the head of state, Nicolás Maduro, was re-elected, and the lack of knowledge by the former opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia and his ally María Corina Machado, who have waged a hate campaign through these media.

“We can’t help but overlook it, it wouldn’t make sense to imagine that what happened before, during and after the 28th of July was a casual event, something like exceptional. I would say that it is part of this land of trials, which I have described in a very simple way, as if in a gigantic macro blender they had (in the Venezuelan case) introduced all forms, methods and ways of hybrid war”, he added.

For his part, he reported that a recognized hacker gave details about the computer attack, which aimed at a blackout in the electronic data system of the National Electoral Council (CNE).

“There are details of how he hacked the Venezuelan electoral system, but what he could not achieve was the goal, which was an information blackout in the electronic data system, they slowed it down, attacked it, but it wasn’t just that, but shut it down completely,” he added.

The prosecutor Tarek William Saab showed to the diplomatic corps accredited in Venezuela, all the evidence collected by the Public Ministry including the photographs of the victims of the Venezuelan fascism, which in just 4 hours caused 70 percent of the 25 people who died on the days after July 28.