Caracas, October 16 (teleSUR-RHC), -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro revealed on Wednesday that ongoing investigations into the murder of legislator Robert Serra show Colombian paramilitaries were also planning to kill National Assembly President, Diosdado Cabello, and Minister of Education, Hector Rodriguez, and other government figures as part of plots to destabilize the country.

“Two days after (Serra's murder) they tried to kill Diosdado Cabello, and we stopped it. A sniper tried to kill Hector Rodriguez (…) our information shows they were going to target our government,” explained Maduro.

He added that the destabilization campaign has been directed by a Colombian paramilitary leader linked to former Colombian President and now Senator Alvaro Uribe Velez.

A group of Municipal Counselors sent a formal request to the Attorney General on Wednesday to investigate opposition leader Maria Corina Machado over her links to Colombian paramilitary groups and her possible involvement in the assassination of Robert Serra.

Several weeks before his murder, Serra denounced Venezuelan violent opposition groups led by Saleh who were planning to kill a number of government figures and left-wing activists.