Guaidó promised to return to the streets today because "Maduro lost the respect of the army"

Opposition leader Juan Guaidó called for protests against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Wednesday following the rise of a group of soldiers, and called on the armed forces to "keep moving forward" "in their actions to dismiss the president.

"The call to the armed forces is to continue to progress in the framework of Operation Liberty," Guaidó said Tuesday in a video broadcast on social networks.

"Tomorrow, May 1, we continue … In all Venezuela, we will be in the street," said the leader of the opposition in Parliament, recognized interim president by half a hundred of country. led by the United States.

Although the rebellion failed to break the support of the high military command in Maduro, Guaidó pointed out that she had fractures.

"It is clear that what the regime said, that he had control of the armed forces, is a joke," he said.

Already, Guaidó, in the previous days, had called for demonstrations for Wednesday for Labor Day. Chavismo is also planning a mobilization for the Miraflores Presidential Palace.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Guaidó had declared that Maduro had a plane ready to go into exile in Cuba, but that Russia – one of his main allies with China – had convinced him stay in power.

"The information is true: the usurper was ready to leave and the foreign forces forced him to stay," said the opponent in a message written on Instagram to accompany the video.

Guaidó was proclaimed president in charge on January 23, after the legislature had declared "the usurper" of Maduro for having declared that he had been reelected by "fraudulent votes".