Paramilitaries in Venezuela

On 20 November 2007, the Venezuelan government announced it has discovered a house in - Urbanización Miranda -<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Eastern Caracas with 78 mobile phones,  US military uniforms, guns and ammunition. Another house was searched in Hatillo municipality.This news came out as four people were arrested detained this morning: José Angulo Guayabal, Iván Álvarez Pina, Miguel Antonio Dávila Pereiray Luber Jacinto Atencio González; their nationality is yet to be confirmed.  It later emerged, they are presumably paramilitaries intending to attack and create havoc during the Constitutional Reform campaigns or promote a coup. This has been used by the government to promote the idea of foreign intervention in domestic affairs and denouce the rightist opposition to President Chavez. 

This event resembles the detention of 120 Colombian Paramilitaries at Hatillo Municipality, Caracas, in 2005. .  In 2006, President Chavez indulted the 120 Colombian paramilitaries as the itelectual planner of their plot was discored. Brother of Cuban American (ex Venezuelan) Actress Maria Conchita Alonso own the farm where the paramilitaries were living and training. He is currently on the run. Colombian Security agencies were also blame in the paramilitary affair.