“We have broken up and foiled a coup attempt against democracy and the stability of our country,†Maduro said, adding that the coup had been directed “from Washington.â€
The coup plan involved an attack on the presidential palace or another top target, Maduro said.
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“This was an attempt to use a group of military aviation officers to provoke a violent event,†and one of the detained plotters was “an [Air Force] general called Hernandez, alias el Oso [the bear].â€
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“On these dates, February 12 and 13, during the commemoration events, [the plot was to] fly a ‘Tucano’ airplane, arm the Tucano and attack the Miraflores [Presidential] Palace, or whichever location I would have been when participating in any one of these events. And then later attack other targets which they had outlined before,” Maduro said, as quoted by AP.
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The alleged plot was uncovered by the Venezuelan intelligence agency, and one of the participating officers was connected to the right-wing forces allegedly planning to provoke a wave of violence.
According to Maduro, the military man was given financial aid, as well as a US visa, which permitted him to leave on February 3.
The president provided no concrete evidence of the alleged coup.
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It is not the first time that Maduro has said there has been an attempted coup against his government. At the beginning of February, the president accused US Vice President Joe Biden of orchestrating a plot against Venezuela.
Last December, Maduro announced “recordings†disclosing the US plan to bribe and corrupt Venezuelan authorities.
Relations between Venezuela and the US have been hostile for a few years: they have not sent ambassadors to each other’s countries since 2010, and instead have chargé d’affaires running their embassies.
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It’s sad that the Maduro government can make claims of plots without presenting any evidence and some people automatically take it for fact. The steady stream of alleged plots has, in part, made Maduro a laughing stock in Venezuela. His popularity is down to what, 15%? The alleged Panama plot was a lie. Panamanian officials rolled their eyes when asked about it. There was another alleged plot involving air force officers that came and went without evidence or arrests or trial. I could write pages and pages of alleged plots that amounted to nothing. How are people so blind not to see through the lies?
Robert Nowac contends that reports of coups or violent overthrows of the democratically elected government of Venezuela are false propaganda. In reality, if an attempt to violently overthrow the democratically elected government of Venezuela fails, then reactionaries say that there was no attempt and the government is crying “wolf.â€
But, if the attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government of Venezuela succeeds – which was the case in April, 2002 – then the reactionaries say that the overthrow expresses the will of the Venezuelan people. But in April, 2002, millions of Venezuelans poured out of their homes and demanded the restoration of the democratically elected government.
This demonstrates that a so-called successful overthrow of the democratically elected government does not express the will of the Venzuelan people.