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Venezuela's Maduro says authorities foiled opposition coup plot

 

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FILE PHOTO: Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro delivers a speech from Miraflores palace in Caracas, Venezuela May 31, 2019. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS

 

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday security forces had foiled an opposition coup attempt that included plans to assassinate him and other top political figures and install a jailed former military officer as president.

 

A catastrophic economic collapse in the South American nation has fuelled malnutrition and disease, prompting an exodus of the population towards Mexico and the United States. The armed forces have continued to side with the ruling Socialist Party despite calls by opposition leader Juan Guaido to disavow Maduro.

 

"We have revealed, dismantled and captured a fascist band of terrorists that planned a coup against Venezuelan society and Venezuelan democracy," said Maduro in an evening broadcast.

 

"They are captured, behind bars, with clear evidence after following this group of criminals and fascists."

 

The plan allegedly involved an attack on the headquarters of the Sebin intelligence agency to release General Raul Baduel, a former defence minister who was arrested on corruption accusations in 2009 after falling out with the Socialist Party.

 

Maduro said the plan involved Guaido as well as political leaders from Chile, Colombia and the United States.

 

Guaido dismissed the accusations as lies. Maduro's critics accuse him of fabricating plots for political effect based on coerced testimony of arrested suspects.

 

Guaido, who in January invoked the constitution to assume a rival presidency, called on the armed forces in April to disavow Maduro in an uprising.

 

(Reporting by Caracas Newrsoom; Editing by Richard Chang)

 

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Looks like Guido might have found an exit strategy....the firing squad. The US have dropped him like a hot brick. 
Yes "trump" only wanted a quick and easy foreign policy win to help his reelection. He doesn't do stuff that requires complicated follow through. Think the attention span of a toddler.

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..wake up...

 

...'dropped'....nonsense...

 

...the 'Deep State' is a cancer that has destroyed scores of countries and millions of lives...

 

...unbelievably....it is being eradicated....

 

...these 'press agencies' are its.... b*tches.....

 

....half truths...slanted in the way that will favor these rabid scum that say and do anything...

 

...to suit their diabolical needs....

 

 

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..wake up...
 
...'dropped'....nonsense...
 
...the 'Deep State' is a cancer that has destroyed scores of countries and millions of lives...
 
...unbelievably....it is being eradicated....
 
...these 'press agencies' are its.... b*tches.....
 
....half truths...slanted in the way that will favor these rabid scum that say and do anything...
 
...to suit their diabolical needs....
 
 
Translation from conspiracytheoryeze please.

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the failure of US waging petrolwars around the globe.

one thing we shall say about trumph and his entourage, they not able to do one thing in the right way, in this case , thanks to god they really incompetents !

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