There are various less mainstream publication implicating him. Hard to judge the accuracy since mainstream outlet are all involved with western intelligence operations.
It has since emerged that the incident, never officially clarified, was related to the arrest of General Marcano. Reports from Colombian intelligence — an effective source of information on events in the neighboring country and accessed by the Colombian press — indicate that Marcano is accused of facilitating the kidnapping of Maduro. His involvement consisted of providing the United States with the exact coordinates of where Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores were sleeping, and identifying blind spots in the Cuban-Venezuelan security ring protecting them. According to these reports, he was the man infiltrated by Washington, and they add that encrypted communications between the general and foreign intelligence agencies were detected weeks before January 3.
Venezuelan news sites have not been talking about Tabata since he was dismissed from his position as commander of the honor guard. Articles note that Delcy Rodríguez thanked him for his service.
He held a speech during a ceremony for the martyrs of the January 3 attack, but I think that was before he was dismissed. I’ve not heard the name mentioned in other media since the first 10 days or so of January, so it’s likely just “alt”(?) media picking up the regime change propaganda from then and repackaging it.
that’s not ‘alt media’, that’s El Pais, it’s a European-chauvinist Socdem rag with negative views of Latin American revolutionary socialism
seem english publications continues to be rather useless as news source for the region. We’ll probably never know how the whole thing went down so fast.