{"id":45776,"date":"2019-04-30T06:46:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T11:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45776"},"modified":"2019-04-30T06:46:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T11:46:17","slug":"venezuela-leaders-confirm-active-coup-attempt-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45776","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Leaders Confirm Active Coup Attempt In The Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Venezuela Leaders Confirm Active Coup Attempt In The Country<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Multiple reports say a military coup attempt is ongoing Tuesday morning in Venezuela as an anti-Guaido militia loyal to opposition leader and US-backed Juan Guaid\u00f3 tries to establish military control of key points across the capital of Caracas and other major cities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez\u00a0confirmed via social media the government is in the midst of putting down what’s being described as\u00a0a “small coup” by military “traitors”<\/strong>\u00a0working with the right-wing opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

File photo of Venezuela soldier in Caracas, via AFP<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AP has confirmed<\/a> ongoing clashes between coup supporters and police inside Caracas, including reports of tear gas being fired, moments after Guaido issued statements in a video calling for a military uprising. Guaido was shown in the video accompanied by detained activist Leopoldo Lopez and surrounded by well-armed soldiers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AP has confirmed<\/a> ongoing clashes between coup supporters and police inside Caracas, including reports of tear gas being fired, moments after Guaido issued statements in a video calling for a military uprising. Guaido was shown in the video accompanied by detained activist Leopoldo Lopez and surrounded by well-armed soldiers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crucially,\u00a0Lopez said\u00a0he was liberated from captivity<\/strong>\u00a0where Maduro had put him under house arrest for leading opposition unrest in 2014, and in the video\u00a0called\u00a0on all Venezuelans to peacefully take to streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The AP described the video which apparently sparked the subsequent anti-Maduro action in Caracas<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the three-minute video shot early Tuesday, Guaido said soldiers who took to the streets would be acting to protect Venezuela\u2019s constitution. He made the comments a day before a planned anti-government rally. <\/p>

\u201cThe moment is now,\u201d he said, as his political mentor Lopez and several heavily armed soldiers backed by a single armored vehicle looked on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Venezuela Leaders Confirm Active Coup Attempt In The Country Multiple reports say a military coup attempt is ongoing Tuesday morning in Venezuela as an anti-Guaido militia loyal to opposition leader and US-backed Juan Guaid\u00f3 tries to establish military control of key points across the capital of Caracas and other major cities.  Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez\u00a0confirmed via social media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2492,25752,526,4318],"class_list":["post-45776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-caracas","tag-jorge-rodriguez","tag-military-coup","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45777,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45776\/revisions\/45777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}