Published at: 15/05/2024 09:00 PM

• At 2:30 in the morning of Sunday, May 9, 2004, officials from the defunct Police Intelligence Directorate (DISIP) entered the Daktari Estate, located between the municipalities of El Hatillo and Baruta, to arrest 153 Colombian paramilitaries who entered Venezuela with the purpose of assassinating President Hugo Chávez Frías.
• The farm, owned by Robert Alonso, brother of actress María Conchita Alonso, was the site agreed as a training place for the assassins.
• The attack was planned since 2003. The summit meeting was held on April 23 at the Caracas Country Club with the participation of former Air Force and National Guard officers. The initial idea was to bomb the place where the Aló Presidente program would take place. This plan was disbanded.
• Later, it was decided to carry out the attack through the paramilitaries concentrated on that farm. An elite group would assassinate Chávez in La Casona, another would storm the Miraflores Palace and a third would steal the weapons depot located in Regional Command No. 5 and the La Carlota Air Base.
• The Daktari Plan consisted of re-establishing the brief dictatorship of Carmona Estanga. The paramilitaries captured by the DISIP included three Colombian terrorists with records of numerous murders in peasant areas. His record and committed atrocities included the practice of mutilation, castration and the “cutting of the tie”. This consists of murder by cutting the throat of a knife and the tongue extracted through the opening of the wound. It was initially applied to peasant leaders and left-wing leaders during “La Violencia” (1940-1060) and has since been extended to rural communities as a terror technique.
• Álvaro Uribe was at the head of this magnicidal operation and attempted paramilitary invasion of Venezuelan territory.
• Operation Daktari was also known as “Los Paracachitos”, because during their stay at the farm the terrorists were fed hundreds of trays of cacti and snacks from the Danubio pastry shop.
• Among the brains behind Operation Daktari are involved:

1. Ovidio Poggioli
2. Liliana Hernandez (AD).
3. Rafael Marin (AD).
4. Orlando Urdaneta, actor.
5. GNB Colonel Jaél Contreras Rangel.
6. Businessman Gustavo Zining Machado.
7. Pedro Carmona Estanga.
8. Maria Luisa Chiossone (Yuyita).
9. Alfredo Peña, then a fugitive from Venezuelan justice.
10. Jorge Díaz, from DAS Colombia, who established contact with the owner of the farm
11. Robert Alonso to bring the paramilitaries into Venezuela.
12. José Ernesto Ayala alias “Lucas”.
13. Rafael Antonio Omaña, alias “Richard”.
14. Jefferson Gutierrez, alias “Jefferson.”
15. Carlos Andrés Pérez, “the Boss”
16. Carlos Ortega

• Regarding this serious assassination attempt, President Hugo Chávez stated, on radio and television:

1. “Venezuela has been invaded”
2. “... The National Executive has ordered Ambassador Charles Shapiro to immediately leave U.S. officials who are in Venezuelan military bases...”
3. “Among those captured is Commander Cabezas, accused of being the second leader of the irregular group and a professional soldier of the Colombian army... He is credited with the slaughter of one of his companions...”
4. “... This new outrage planned and prepared inside and outside the country by sectors of the Venezuelan political opposition, in a network of international connections, which threatens republican sovereignty and integrity...”
5. “... At least, for now, a bloodbath has been avoided...”
6. “... We have enough elements to doubt the good faith of Colombia's intelligence agencies...”
7. “... My logic as a soldier tells me: The Chief of the Southern Command is involved in this invasion of Venezuela...”

• Gustavo Petro, then president of the Colombian Congress, alerted the Venezuelan government that one of the captured paramilitaries, José Feliciano Yépez, was identified for his participation in the Colosó Massacre.

Mazo News Team