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on september 14, local time, venezuelan minister of the interior and justice diosdado cabello asked the united states to clarify its relationship with arms trafficking in a televised speech. cabello said that us intelligence agencies were involved in arms trafficking and colluded with opposition forces to assassinate venezuelan leaders and undermine venezuela's stability.

cabello said intelligence showed that the cia was involved in arms trafficking and colluded with the opposition to find mercenaries to assassinate venezuelan leaders. six foreign citizens have been arrested, including two spanish citizens, two american citizens and one czech citizen. wilbur joseph castaneda, an active-duty american officer who was arrested earlier, was involved in more than 400 arms trafficking cases. the us government said it was unaware of this.

later that day, the spanish government denied that the two citizens arrested in venezuela belonged to the country's intelligence department. cctv reporters learned that the spanish ministry of foreign affairs stated that the spanish embassy in venezuela has asked the venezuelan side to visit the two arrested spanish citizens. (cctv reporter deng xuemei ma tianjing)

source: cctv news