Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro said on Oct. 6 that security forces have been deployed to the shuttered U.S. embassy in Caracas following a potential threat posed by what he described as a right-wing extremist plot to conduct a false flag operation at the site.
The leader of the socialist regime said that he believed the alleged plot was intended to pin the blame on his government and escalate tensions between Venezuela and the United States.
A false flag operation is an act carried out with the intent to make it appear as though the other party was responsible.
Maduro made the claims in a televised interview, stating that his government had been alerted to the potential threat by two reliable sources, which he did not identify, and that investigations were underway to identify those involved….