Nicolás Maduro urged the army to ignore the offer of amnesty from the opposition

The Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro urged the military to disregard the call of the opposition to seek refuge in an amnesty if they withdraw their support for his regime.

During a visit to a commando training center of special forces of the National Guard, Maduro asked the troops to prepare for any eventuality with "absolute loyalty, an absolute union," and asked them not to forget the aggression and insults that opposition leaders had condemned for years.

Armed forces remain loyal to socialist government despite opposition efforts to attract support by proposing an amnesty to the army and police officers to help restore democracy and support the transitional government of Juan Guaidó, president of the National Assembly, who defied Maduro by declaring himself acting president on January 23rd.

After attending a series of military exercises including snipers and public order maneuvers, Maduro reminded the soldiers: "When they attacked them with excrement, with excrement, they remember, they remember the insults they inflicted on them, now they came last Sunday, with the face of me, to deliver a supposed amnesty. "

Guaidó last Sunday released an amnesty law that is dealt with by the legislature for the military.

The law proposed by the unicameral Congress offers guarantees to civilians and soldiers who collaborate in restoring democracy and the constitutional order in Venezuela.

Guaidó autojuramentado after the National Assembly, the only power in the hands of the opposition, declare Maduro "usurper" for having started on 10 January a second term deemed illegitimate by the international community, who believes that his reelection was fraudulent.