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Venezuelan Govt Says Guaido Coup Failed, Some coup plotters have hidden in the Brazilian embassy in Caracas






Live Updates: Venezuelan Govt Says Guaido Coup Failed, Lopez Hides in Chile's Embassy


Source: TeleSUR English
30 April 2019


The Venezuelan opposition lawmaker has once again called on the military to overthrow the legitimate government of President Nicolas Maduro.


Juan Guaido, the opposition lawmaker who illegally self-proclaimed "interim president" of Venezuela, Tuesday morning made a call on social media asking the military and people to begin an uprising against the legitimate government of President Nicolas Maduro.

Senior government officials have rejected the attempted coup and called on the country's population to do the same and march towards the Miraflores presidential palace to protect the country from the far-right, U.S.-backed coup.

Thousands of citizens have accepted the call and marched Tuesday to the palace to attend a rally led by the head of the National Consistent Assembly Diosdado.

UPDATE: 4:30 pm (local time)

teleSUR correspondent in Brazil has received confirmation from the foreign ministry of Brazil that 25 soldiers that have asked protection in the Brazilian embassy in Caracas.

UPDATE: 4:04 pm

Russia's Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that "if Washington does not stop interfering in the affairs of Venezuela, it will lead to the collapse of the situation."

She commented also that some Washington politicians cannot appreciate how destructive that path can be "which is strange because everyone else already sees it".

Zakharova made these statements after U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton requested a "regime change" in Venezuela.

UPDATE: 3:48 pm

During a press conference from New York, the Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations Samuel Moncada said that Tuesday’s “coup attempt seeks to promote a puppet government, but failed because most of our people want to live in peace and with the right to self-determination."

The Venezuelan official also called on the international community to reject the far-right violent attempt, for it “violates every U.N Charter and undermines peace."

The diplomat pointed out that the U.S. government has openly admitted that it has participated in today's new conspiracy act and commented that “it's a psychopathic, warlike elite that is using all media with a bombard of fake news."

Regarding Venezuela opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez asylum request at the Chilean embassy, Moncada said that “those gentlemen have been defeated, but that defeat will have consequences in many parts of that fictitious government."

UPDATE: 3:11 pm

Chile’s Foreign Affairs Minister Roberto Ampuero confirmed that Venezuelan opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez and his family requested asylum at the Chilean embassy in Caracas.

"Lilian Tintori and her daughter entered as guests of our diplomatic mission in Caracas. A few minutes ago her spouse, Leopoldo Lopez, joined his family in that place. Chile reaffirms commitment with Venezuelan democrats," Minister Ampuero tweeted.

UPDATE: 3:30 pm
Jill Stein, a medical doctor and former Green Party candidate in the U.S. presidential elections in 2012 and 2016, rejected the Trump administration's attempt to destabilize Venezuela in order to grab its oil resources.

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UPDATE: 1:20 pm
Soldiers reveal to teleSUR reporters about how they were tricked into joining the attempted coup by Juan Guaido and his right-wing allies in the country.




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UPDATE 11:20 am
teleSUR's correspondents spoke to the Chavistas gathering at the Miraflores palace in support of President Maduro and in rejection of the coup.




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