In a video with troops, Guaidó urged other soldiers to join “Operation Liberty” to oust Maduro.
By Mariana Zuñiga and Anthony Faiola Anthony Faiola Correspondent covering Latin America, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, human rights, poverty, globalization and economics Email Bio Follow April 30 at 8:14 AM CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó appeared early Tuesday to be staging a military-backed challenge to President Nicolás Maduro, issuing a video with troops that he said was recorded at a base in Caracas and urging other soldiers to join the final...
Outside the La Carlota military base in the eastern district of Altamira, people started to join Guaidó’s call to protest and were met by tear gas canisters. It was not immediately clear who fired the tear gas. People react to tear gas near the Generalisimo Francisco de Miranda Air Base,"La Carlota," in Caracas, Venezuela, April 30, 2019. In a live phone interview on state-run television, chief prosecutor Tarek William Saab said: “Our position is to defend democracy. We will not hesitate to act, without violating the constitution, against the ones who have led an embarrassing show. . . . We will act, with all calm, at the right moment.
On Tuesday — a day before a planned opposition protest — Guaidó stood in front of Leopoldo López, his political mentor and a longtime opposition figure who has been ordered to remain under house arrest. His presence signified a defiant breaking of that order.
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