Venezuela | After the uprising of Guaidó, Maduro appears with "faithful military": "The time has come to fight"

After the insurgency led by opposition leader Juan Guaidó in Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro was shown this Thursday with loyal military to the Chavan government.

From the Fuerte Tiuna military base in Caracas, the president sent a message to people in uniform: "The time has come to fightThe time has come to give an example to history and the world and to say that Venezuela has an armed force that is legal, coherent, united. "

In clear reference to recent events, Maduro urged to continue to "defeat the coup attempts of the traitors who are sold to dollars of Washington ".

"We are together again, in motion, because we have to wake up and stir up the sacred fire of Venezuelan military values ​​for the fight we are against imperialism, traitors and conspirators"said the president in military uniform, surrounded by soldiers and the Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López.

Padrino López also addressed the troops and said that those who participated in the uprising on Tuesday released the opposition leader Leopoldo López, "they let themselves be manipulated, cheat and buy to provoke terror among the population ".

The minister again described as "mediocre" what he considered a "coup attempt" and said: "If we had the will to use military force, it does not last two minutes, but we can not be tempted to fall between us. "

Finally, Padrino López reiterated the "loyalty to the president Nicolás Maduro "" Commander-in-Chief, we will continue to fulfill the constitutional tasks placed under his command, "he said.