CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard around 2 a.m. local time Saturday in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. The government accused the United States of attacking civilian and military installations in multiple states.

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Venezuela’s government, in the statement, called on its supporters to take to the streets.

“People to the streets!” the statement said. “The Bolivarian Government calls on all social and political forces in the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack.”

The statement added that President Nicolás Maduro had “ordered all national defense plans to be implemented” and declared “a state of external disturbance.” That state of emergency gives him the power to suspend people’s rights and expand the role of the armed forces.

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    2 months ago

    It’s an american led coup.

    Not even the first in south America but absolutely the most blatant.

    Edit: “Negotiated exit” could mean a few things but it probably means they had him and his family and said ‘come with us or we go to our alternative orders’

    To be clear Maduro is an ass but what the USA has done is internationally intolerable and is the kidnapping of a foreign head of state.

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      2 months ago

      To be clear Maduro is an ass

      But then so is Trump. Each one is an asscheek, they go together.

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        2 months ago

        Drug lord vs pedophile hard to say if I want either to live or be happy.

        Can we take neither and have it not fuck over the people tho?

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          Can you show me the evidence of Maduro being a druglord? You know this is all bullshit made up by Trump and the murderers who want their oil.