The opposition went to the Venezuelan barracks to convince the army to withdraw support for Nicolás Maduro

With protests in military installations, the opposition is preparing Sunday to engage in a new battle to try to put pressure on the armed forces so that he withdraws support for dictator Nicolás Maduro while the conflict between the parties intensifies.

The opposition has called for demonstrations in front of some military and police facilities to try to get closer to the uniform through the presentation of the draft amnesty law for the military and police.

By inviting Venezuelans to this initiative, Juan Guaidó said this week, at a rally in the east of Caracas: that it will be an "unprecedented nonviolent civil action" to invite officials to withdraw the support of Maduro, whom he calls "usurper" of the presidency after being reelected in elections that were ignored by the opposition on the grounds that & # 39; They violated the constitution and the laws.

"We tell each of your officials to come here that there is a future here. May Maduro protect no one, neither against persecution, nor against hunger or misery ", he added.

Eduardo Trujillo, director of the human rights center of Andrés Bello Catholic University, said that "the amnesty and the appeal to civilians and the military (…) is a element used by the National Assembly to try to contribute "to the change of government.

"We arrived at the gate of the Girardot battalion, a commander came out and turned our backs on us, and we will continue to enforce the law between the officers and the family members of the army," he said. -he declares. Juvénal Timaure, representative of the opposition group Frente Amplio in Coro, capital of the state of Falcón, in northwestern Venezuela.

Despite multiple exhortations by the opposition to ignore Maduro by the army, there has not been any strong demonstrations to date, and instead the military high command, composed of generals and admirals close to the socialist leader, they ratified the total support of the regime.

Colonel of the National Guard José Luis Silva, Venezuela's military attaché in Washington, announced the day before, in a video posted on Twitter, the break with the Maduro regime and support for Guaidó. In the recording, the colonel, dressed in the uniform, urged the armed forces to join him to avoid "attacking" protesters and fulfill the fundamental role of restoring democracy.

The Ministry of Defense condemned Silva's statement on his Twitter account, stating that "subordinating to international interests is an act of treason and cowardice"and placed two photographs of the officer on which is written the word "traitor". He also published a resolution of this agency of 20 September in which it was stated that the official would go to the "active reserve" from 31 July this year.

In a capital of the commander of the National Guard was registered on January 21 a military uprising that lasted about four hours and this resulted in the surrender to the authorities of about twenty rebel National Guards. For the uprising, 27 soldiers were arrested.

On the same day that the population mobilized to ask for support from the army and was increasingly surrounded by internal and external pressure, Maduro led Sunday military exercises in the state of Carabobo to demand allegiance to the forces armies.

"The traitors never, the faithful always!" Maduro said after having badured that the "coup d'etat imperialist" was seeking to "impose a puppet government" to the figure of Guaidó.

"We will let the entire weapons system, all the military force, all operational readiness, listening and listening., all the civil-military union, all the capacity of the militia so that no one dares to even think about touching our sacred land. "

With information from AP and Reuters