Published at: 13/05/2026 07:58 PM

(Diario Vea, El Nacional and Última Noticias, May 2004)

• 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 in Miranda state, to arrest 153 Colombian paramilitaries who invaded Venezuela with the purpose of assassinating the president Hugo Chavez Frias.
• The Daktari Estate, owned by Robert Alonso, brother of María Conchita Alonso, was the place agreed as a place to stay to fulfill the objective of assassinating the Head of State.
• The attack, which they had to carry out at any cost, was planned since 2003 and they were offered the sum of 20 million dollars for the commission. The first meeting was held on April 23 at the Caracas Country Club, with the participation of former Air Force and National Guard officers. The agreed decision was to bomb the place where the Aló Presidente program would take place. This plan was aborted.
• 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, other paramilitaries would storm El Palacio de Miraflores and the rest would steal the weapons depot located in Regional Command No. 5 (CORE 5) and the Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda Air Base in La Carlota.
• The Daktari Plan's main objective was to re-establish the brief white-collar dictatorship of Carmona Estanga. This was the common denominator of the entire conspiracy.
• The paramilitaries captured by the DISIP included three Colombian terrorists with records of numerous murders in peasant areas. His history and atrocities include mutilation, castration and the “cutting of the tie”. The latter 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” (1940-1960), and later it has been extended to rural communities as a terror technique.
• From Colombia, Álvaro Uribe led 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 snack trays from the Danubio Bakery.
• Among the intellectual and material authors of Operation Daktari are involved:
  • Ovidio Poggioli
  • Liliana Hernández
  • Rafael Marín
  • Orlando Urdaneta, actor
  • GNB Colonel Jaél Contreras Rangel
  • Businessman Gustavo Zingg Machado
  • Pedro Carmona Estanga
  • María Luisa Chiossone “Yuyita”
  • Alfredo Peña, then a fugitive from Venezuelan justice.
  • Jorge Díaz, from the Administrative Department of Security (DAS) Colombia, who established contact with the owner of the farm Robert Alonso to bring the paramilitaries into Venezuela.
  • José Ernesto Ayala, alias Lucas
  • Rafael Antonio Omaña, alias Richard.
  • Jefferson Gutierrez, aka Jefferson
  • Carlos Andrés Pérez, alias El Capo
  • Carlos Ortega

Mazo News Team