RT - Self declared Venezuelan �interim President� Juan Guaido has called for a military uprising in a video shot at a Caracas airbase. In the video he is accompanied by a number of soldiers, and detained activist Leopoldo Lopez.


�The moment is now,��Guaido declared standing near heavily armed soldiers and an armored vehicle.

The three-minute video was shot ahead of a planned anti-government rally on Tuesday, in which Guaido�said that the soldiers deployed into the streets would be acting to��protect Venezuela�s constitution."


En el marco de nuestra constituci�n. Y por el cese definitivo de la usurpaci�n.�https://t.co/3RD2bnQhxt


� Juan Guaid� (@jguaido)�April 30, 2019

Guaido had earlier claimed on Twitter that he was meeting with��the key military units��of the Venezuelan army as��the beginning of the final phase of Operation Freedom.�


Maduro spokesman confirms coup underway in Venezuela. Says �small number of military� have joined forces with the opposition. Numbers not yet clear.�https://t.co/yYFgm5ApYZ


� Eva Golinger (@evagolinger)�April 30, 2019