Venezuela’s embattled President Nicolas Maduro has claimed his troops have defeated a
The speech followed a dawn address from Guaido Tuesday, in which the young opposition leader, standing alongside a group of soldiers in the capital Caracas, announced an uprising to seize power from Maduro. It marked the most serious challenge to Maduro’s leadership so far and unleashed a day of street protests and skirmishes.
In a follow-up video post, recorded from an unknown location and posted Tuesday evening, Guaido called for renewed action “over the expanse and length of Venezuela.”
He urged “all of Venezuela” to protest on International Worker’s Day, a globally celebrated holiday that falls on May 1.
Despite the government’s claims that the Tuesday uprising had been quashed, Guaido, who is the head of Venezuela’s National Assembly, said that “Operation Freedom” would continue.
In the video speech, Guaido said that Maduro no longer had the “support nor the respect of the armed forces.”
He asked the military to help advance “Operation Freedom,” which he described as a mission to rescue “our dignity, our country, our people, our family — that is the challenge.”
“May 1, we continue to be in the streets, in the selected places of gathering chosen and defined in all the national territory.
