Cuban and Venezuelan Detainees Allegedly Paid to Protest in the United States
The FBI arrested protesters, who admitted that they had received money to participate in the riot
Spanish – Multiple protesters arrested in Miami and other U.S. cities have told the FBI they received money from activists in Cuba and Venezuela, several sources told Venezuelan journalist Casto Ocando. This could mean that the Bolivarian breezes that Nicolás Maduro announced in October when Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, and Bolivia (in November) were faced with a wave of destabilizing protests are also blowing to the north.
“There are definitely individuals associated with Venezuela who paid for people to travel to various cities in the United States to promote chaos,” an informant told Primer Informe.
The source claims that the detainees include citizens of Haiti, Venezuela, Honduras, and the United States who were interrogated by FBI domestic counterterrorism agents.
The money was transferred Friday and Saturday, May 30, to Downtown Miami, where several of the detainees are residents, specifically in the area known as Little Haiti, according to the source.
This is a flagrant offense in at least two of the cases because they were arrested with significant amounts of cash.
While local authorities, such as the Miami District Attorney’s Office, are in charge of investigations, intelligence officials are reportedly looking to establish links with Venezuela and Cuba.
Here's my video of the peaceful protest that escalated into cars on fire, tear gas being deployed and looting in Downtown Miami tonight. pic.twitter.com/a1zUUzDI3x
— Joel Franco (@OfficialJoelF) May 31, 2020
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