By Andrew Rosati  & Ethan Bronner @ Bloomberg via LMTOnline.com, August 17, 2018

[....] A participant in the April Bogota meeting said in an interview that he believes the people his group met with were the perpetrators.

His group, which included members of all four armed-service branches, was later infiltrated by the Venezuelan security services. Several dozen were arrested, breaking up the most serious attempt to overthrow Maduro in his five years in office. The plan was called Operation Constitution. The man remains abroad.

His theory about who was behind the drone attack is one of several clues emerging about the perpetrators of the Aug. 4 assault.

The government also knows some things about the plotters. It says their financier is Osman Delgado, a Venezuelan living in Miami who is linked to a 2017 attack on a military base. Delgado couldn't be reached for comment.

The government has released audio recordings of what seem to be the attackers on the day of the assassination attempt. The recordings reveal a chaotic group bickering and scolding one another for failing to report in or not speaking loudly enough or announcing that the military ceremony being attacked was underway. [.....]