The Venezuelan government has protested in front of Spanish authorities the presence on their territory of terrorist organizations preparing deadly attacks on the South American country, Foreign Affairs minister Felix Plasencia said on Friday.

“At the headquarters of the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we delivered a formal note to Spain’s Charge d’Affaires Ramon Santos, with documentation confirming the existence of terrorist gangs in that country, which intend to attack public institutions and the integrity of our officials,” Plasencia wrote on his Twitter account.

Venezuelan intelligence authorities recently dismantled a terrorist group that planned to damage National Electoral Council (CNE) infrastructure in Miranda state.

During a security operation, four people, identified as Dimas Gonzalez, Jose Acua, Francisco Moya, and Keiner Gutierrez, were apprehended in the vicinity of the CNE warehouse in Mariche, in possession of explosive materials and gasoline.

The Venezuelan government identified fugitive from justice William Ricardo Sanchez as the operation's administrator and funder. Sanchez is in Spain and is in charge of the measures about ultra-right leader Leopoldo Lopez, who is also a refugee in that country.

The Venezuelan Government has repeatedly warned about the existence of several violent plans by extremist sectors to sabotage the development of the November 21 regional and municipal elections.

More than 20 million Venezuelans are called to vote to elect the country’s 23 governors and 335 mayors, in addition to the members of regional and municipal legislative councils.