Venezuela’s top court orders prosecution of seven opposition lawmakers who supported last week’s failed uprising against President Maduro
Members of security forces stand guard outside the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, May 7, 2019. Venezuela stripped seven opposition lawmakers of their parliamentary immunity for supporting last week's failed military coup against President Nicolas Maduro.
Saab, confirmed that 18 arrest warrants were issued against "civilians and military plotters," although he gave no names.Seven Venezuelan military officers have been killed when their helicopter crashed while heading to a state where President Nicolas Maduro appeared alongside troops Saturday. Trump and Putin spoke for more than an hour on several topics, their first known conversation since December and since tensions flared in Venezuela, where Washington backs opposition leader Juan Guaido and Moscow supports Maduro.
"We have a comprehensive set of options tailored to certain conditions, and I'm just going to leave it at that," he said. Pressed to say whether the options include direct military intervention, he said, "I'll leave that to your imagination. All options are on the table." Opposition activist Leopoldo Lopez spoke with reporters on Thursday at the gate of the Spanish ambassador's home in the Venezuelan capital, days after breaking house arrest to join an attempted military revolt against Maduro.
"It's a crack that will become a bigger crack ... that will end up breaking the dam," the 48-year-old told reporters congregated outside the residence.He said that in recent weeks he's talked with majors in the Venezuelan armed forces who told him they are committed to Maduro's ouster. A small group heeded the call, but the movement failed to ignite -- the military leadership ratified their support for the government, and Maduro is standing his ground despite international pressure.
The Supreme Tribunal of Justice on Thursday instructed police to detain Lopez for violating terms of his house arrest. He said Venezuela has become "a criminal state controlled by mafia and narco-traffickers" and it "will not come out of this without the use of force." The Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict said the dead from the unrest on Tuesday and Wednesday include two people who were shot in the city of La Victoria and two others hit by gunfire in Caracas, the capital.
"If you count up all that official representatives of the American administration say about Venezuela, then you can pose questions endlessly and to all these questions the answer will be, to put it diplomatically: it's untrue," he said. Spain has in recent years become a destination for thousands of Venezuelans escaping the country's political and economic crisis.President Maduro has called for military unity in an appearance with soldiers at the air base where Guaido called for an uprising two days earlier.
National Guard troops fired tear gas at stone-throwing protesters attempting to block a highway close to the air base in eastern Caracas where Guaido had tried on Tuesday to spark a military uprising against Maduro. Lavrov told Pompeo by phone that further "aggressive steps" in Venezuela would be fraught with the gravest consequences, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
“I am calling on the armed forces to continue their march in ‘Operation Freedom.’ Tomorrow, May 1, we will continue... across all of Venezuela, we will be on the streets,” Guaido said in a video message released on social media.Pompeo said on Tuesday that Maduro was ready to leave the country before Russia convinced him to stay.
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