Thousands take to the streets across Venezuela in a mounting struggle for control of the crisis-wracked nation, where US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido is attempting to oust socialist President Nicolas Maduro
Supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who many nations have recognised as the country's rightful interim ruler, take part in a rally against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas, Venezuela, April 6, 2019. Thousands took to the streets across Venezuela on Saturday in a mounting struggle for control of the crisis-wracked nation, where US- backed opposition leader Juan Guaido is attempting to oust socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
“Those looking on should know this: All options are on the table. And Nicolas Maduro would do well not to test the resolve of the United States of America,” Pence said in a speech at Rice University in Houston.Maduro on Thursday said one of the goals of "the terrorist attack" is to "leave the people of Venezuela without water" and asked people to store and save water.
The court had been investigating Guaido for usurping Maduro's powers by declaring himself interim president on January 23 - a move which rapidly gained international support. Guaido dismissed the Maduro-stacked high court and Constituent Assembly as illegitimate and continued his calls for Maduro to step down.
"Some changes are needed to strengthen, take responsibility for, and develop the new phase of this plan," Maduro said.Meanwhile, Juan Guaido has been attending rallies across the country - and at one in Caracas tear gas was fired near his supporters - just as the opposition leader was about to head on stage.
Maduro said on national television that the plan will help deal with the outages that have also cut off water supply and communications for days at a time. AFP journalists on the scene said the security forces blocked opposition protesters from concentrating at certain points in the western side of the city.
The shipment for Venezuela contained 65 tons of medicines and supplies which will be distributed by those designated by the government of President Maduro. Elliott Abrams, the US envoy heading the US effort to oust President Nicolas Maduro, said that Washington believes that Moscow sent around 100 people to provide "technical assistance."
"The United States views Russia's arrival of military planes this weekend as an unwelcome provocation," Pence told reporters.A Russian military contingent that arrived in Venezuela over the weekend, drawing US condemnation, is believed by the US government to be made up of special forces, including "cybersecurity personnel," a US official said on Tuesday.
Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez told state television that the opposition was responsible, claiming it "wants to plunge the population into profound unease." An airplane with the Russian flag is seen at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Caracas, Venezuela, March 24, 2019. Two Russian air force planes landed at Venezuela's main airport on Saturday carrying a Russian defence official and nearly 100 troops, according to media reports, amid strengthening ties between Caracas and Moscow.
"Russia has various contracts that are in the process of being fulfilled, contracts of a technical military character," Sputnik quoted the source as saying.Two Russian air force planes landed at Venezuela's main airport on Saturday carrying a Russian defence official and nearly 100 troops, according to media reports, amid strengthening ties between Caracas and Moscow.
An Ilyushin IL-62 passenger jet and an Antonov AN-124 military cargo plane left for Caracas on Friday from Russian military airport Chkalovsky, stopping along the way in Syria, according to flight-tracking website Flightradar24. He said that Colombia, Venezuela's US-aligned neighbour, was also involved, and said that an unidentified Colombian paramilitary chief had been captured in the country "and is giving testimony."
Interior Minister Nestor Reverol accused the aide, Roberto Marrero, a 49-year-old lawyer who serves as Guaido's chief of staff, of leading a "terrorist cell" bent on attacking the government's leadership with the help of Colombian and Central American mercenaries as well as "acts of sabotage on public services to create chaos.
Commissioner Michelle Bachelet told the Human Rights Council of the UN that Venezuela's "pervasive and devastating economic and social crisis" started before the US first levied sanctions. Both Brazil and the United States have voiced support for Guaido, who has been recognised as the country's legitimate leader by about 50 countries.
"We call on members of the Venezuelan military to end their support for Maduro, who is really nothing more than a Cuban puppet," Trump told a joint news conference at the White House with Brazil's new right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro.Representatives of Venezuelan opposition leader Guaido have taken control of three of the country's diplomatic properties in the United States, Guaido's US envoy said on Monday, as the opposition presses its bid to oust Maduro.
Addressing large crowds in the northern city of Valencia, Guaido pledged to deliver a better life for struggling Venezuelans as he began a planned tour of the country gripped by an economic and political crisis. American was the last major US carrier to fly to the troubled country. It flew daily to Caracas and Maracaibo from Miami.
"Today, all US diplomats remaining in Venezuela departed the country. I know it is a difficult moment for them," he said in a statement. The Venezuelan government disputed Pompeo's account, saying it had instructed the US diplomats to leave.Venezuela's public employees were called to return to work Thursday after the government ended a nearly week-long hiatus caused by an unprecedented nationwide blackout that deepened widespread anger against Maduro.
The blackout -- the worst in the history of the once-rich oil-producing nation -- deepened an already grave economic crisis.President Maduro's government scrambled on Wednesday to return power to western Venezuela following heavy looting in the country's second largest city, while China offered to help the South American nation end its worst blackout on record.
"We need an office to work in, so very soon, and when we have the armed forces totally on our side, we'll go to find my office there in Miraflores. Very soon," Guaido told supporters, who chanted back: "Yes, you can!" Maduro has blamed a devastating multi-day blackout plaguing Venezuela on Washington, and declared "victory" in what he called an "electricity war" triggered by the Pentagon.
Schools and businesses across the country remain closed. The blackout has also affected communications networks, and hospitals have been struggling to connect to generators. Pompeo on Monday blamed Russia and Cuba for causing Venezuela’s crisis by supporting Maduro and said he had urged India not to help Maduro by buying Venezuelan oil.
Late Monday, Maduro said on national television that progress had been made in restoring power in Venezuela. Maduro has blamed the blackout on an act of "sabotage" by the United States at the Guri hydroelectric dam, but experts say it is the outcome of years of underinvestment. “Hard times are ahead,” said opposition leader Guaido, who addressed crowds with a loudspeaker after security forces earlier dismantled a speakers’ stage that the opposition had erected.
He said authorities had restored 70 percent of power in Venezuela since what he called an “international cyberattack” late on Thursday, but progress was lost on Saturday when “infiltrators” allegedly struck again.Fifteen Venezuelans with advanced kidney disease have died after being unable to get dialysis during the country’s extended power outage, an NGO reported on Saturday.
Meanwhile, more nationwide power and communications outages hit Venezuela, hours after an earlier blackout appeared to be easing. The caps and shirts of many were red, the colour associated with the self-proclaimed "socialist revolution" of leader Hugo Chavez, who died six years ago and was succeeded by his protege, Maduro.
That account could not be immediately verified, though some Venezuelans on social media began reporting they had power. Streetlights could also be seen turning on in a Caracas neighbourhood.Guaido attends International Women's Day"There is no normalcy today," said Guaido. "We know clearly that the end of darkness comes with the end of the usurpation in Venezuela." Maduro has said sabotage is responsible for a major power outage across the country.
Abrams, a neoconservative who has long advocated an activist US role in the world, said he had been asking European banks to take steps to shield individual Venezuelans' assets from Maduro's government. Venezuela's Guaido said in an interview that the expulsion of the German ambassador by Caracas was a threat against Germany, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Thursday.
The government declared Kriener persona non grata and gave him 48 hours to leave the country, accusing him of meddling in internal affairs, although it did not give specific details.
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