Venezuela: López is a refugee at the Embassy of Spain …

Page / 12 in Venezuela. From Caracas. Leopoldo López eventually became a refugee at the Spanish embbady. He did it with his wife Lilian Tintori and his daughter. Previously, he had fled to the Chilean embbady, ​​but had eventually asked to be housed in the residence of the Spanish ambbadador. In less than twelve hours, he escaped from his home, accompanied by Juan Guadió's coup attempt at Caracas most important military base, La Carlota, and fled to an embbady in the capital. afternoon and in another night. If the initial plan was not a big deal for Lopez to escape, the plan did not yield the expected results.

The events began at 4 am, when a small group of about one hundred members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (Fanb) led a coup led by Guaidó and López. The self-styled "president in charge" transmitted a message through his social networks, in which he claimed that the Fanb was under his command. The action in La Carlota was short-lived and the coup leaders quickly traveled to the Altamira region, a stronghold of opposition in the wealthy region of Caracas.

From the first hours of the day, it was learned that the La Carlota base had not been taken and that the country's headquarters had maintained its support for President Nicolás Maduro. The information was given by the Minister of Communication, Jorge Rodríguez, the commander of the Fanb, Vladimir Padrino López, as well as by the president of the National Constituent Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, among others. As the hours pbaded, the force with which the threatening blow faded away.

Guaidó said that it was the final phase of what he called "Operation Freedom." The military attempt received international support from the US government, through Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; the President of Colombia, Iván Duque; the Argentine government through Chancellor Jorge Faurie; the Secretary of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, and the President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, among others. The Spanish government, for its part, rejected the coup d'etat: "It should be clear that Spain supports no military coup."

The day ended with the news of López's visit to Spain's embbady, ​​Guaidó's contradictory statements about next steps, targeted violence in areas where the right is deploying its forces and many questions on May 1st. Will the right try to radicalize the mobilization announced for tomorrow to create a scenario of increased violence? Is there another group of Fanb willing to take action after this result? What was the ultimate goal? Donald Trump himself claimed to follow events closely.