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Radio Nacional de Venezuela reports: One of the 55 paramilitaries captured this morning on a ranch in El Hatillo (Caracas) owned by opposition leader Robert Alonso, was interviewed by journalist Darvin Romero Montiel of Venezolana de Television (VTV).

The presumed paramilitary, with a strong Colombian accent, gave his testimony anonymously, wearing a hood for security reasons. He confirmed that he was deceived when he came to Venezuela. They had offered him work as a campesino, and then threatened to kill his family if he tried to escape.

“The ranch owner told us that he would pay 500,000 pesos (USD $190) to each Colombian if they would come to work here. After we arrived at the farm, people wearing camouflage gave us more information, that they would take us to another place to prepare us to capture strategic Venezuelan National Guard locations.”

“We couldn’t escape from here.”

The paramilitary confirmed that he was a reservist in the Colombian Army, that he didn’t belong to any subversive group, and that he has a family. “I‚m a country man, a hard worker, and I was only looking for a place to work.” He said that they it wasn’t until he arrived in Venezuela that they told him that he couldn’t escape or they would kill his family. Today is his 46th day on the ranch.

“After 8 days, they told us that we couldn’t leave, that they wouldn’t give any of us information, and that we couldn’t meet with civilians or they would kill our families.” The training consisted of “how to enter a house, kill from a car– the majority of us had already served in the (military). They deceived us. We thought that we were coming to work on a farm, to plant plantains and cassava. Yesterday at 3:00 in the afternoon, some uniformed corporals and generals brought us camouflage clothing, boots, armbands, food, provisions, coffee; they supplied us well. We saw them from afar. They wouldn‚t let us get close.”

They practiced shooting firearms. “They brought an instructor from the (unintelligible) police, who brought equipment and made us watch films, VHS and everything.” However, the access and use of firearms was restricted. “Four days ago, they brought 5 small arms, pistols, and one rifle.”

The youth (who said that he comes from Bucaramanga, Colombia), commented that they hadn’t asked for documents at any Venezuelan border crossing, because a contact, probably active Venezuelan military personnel, guaranteed their free transit through national territory.

Plan: To steal arms from the National Guard to give to 3,000 paramilitaries.

According to statements released this morning by DISIP Commissioner Miguel Rodriguez, the terrorist plan consisted of attacking a military installation in Caracas this week, possibly the Urban Security Command of the National Guard. On Monday, the paramilitaries were to be taken to another ranch, where they would receive final training with arms and ammunition, and do the assault on Wednesday. “We were going to attack a military base that has tunnels underneath containing arms,” said the presumed paramilitary. The purpose, according to one of the anti-Chavez “generals,” was to steal arms from the base to give to a 3,000 strong paramilitary group who were to come to Venezuela in 8 days.

The final objective of the trained paramilitary group was to overthrow Venezuela's Bolivarian government.

“When we learned everything, more than one Colombian wanted to escape; one Colombian got up and escaped, but they caught him after 100 meters, tied him up, and told him that next time he would be killed. They took away our ID cards and all of our Colombian papers,” said the paramilitary.

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