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Venezuela: what we know so far
1) @jguaido announced, ostensibly from La Carlota air base, support of armed forces for "an end to the usurpation" (ie overthrow of Maduro). @leopoldolopez beside him, saying his SEBIN intelligence service guards freed him from house arrest
1) @jguaido announced, ostensibly from La Carlota air base, support of armed forces for "an end to the usurpation" (ie overthrow of Maduro). @leopoldolopez beside him, saying his SEBIN intelligence service guards freed him from house arrest
2) @jguaido and @leopoldolopez filmed on bridge outside La Carlota with small group of national guard troops. Some shots fired. Opposition crowd then tear gassed from within La Carlota, apparently by police special forces
3) General Padrino, defence minister,, says coup attempt being put down and normality at all military regions. Diosdado Cabello calls on pro-regime militias to rally outside presidential palace
4) Unconfirmed reports that uprising being led by General José Ornellas Ferreira, chief of the armed forces general staff. If true, together with the action of the SEBIN intelligence agents in freeing @leopoldolopez, suggests a serious split in the military.
5) If this is true, likely that negotiations now going on within the armed forces. Today will be decisive: either Maduro goes, or @jguaido and @leopoldolopez and others will be arrested and possibly worse. What would US do in that case? Ends
