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• Monday, May 13th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Venezuelan general calls on forces to rise against Maduro, controlled by the Cuban “communist dictatorship”

  

  A Venezuelan general called on the country's armed forces on Sunday to rise up against President Nicolas Maduro, who has relied on the backing of the military to hold on to power despite an economic collapse.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 23:50 UTC

  Venezuela denounces US provocation in national waters when Guaidó announces contacts with the Southern Command

  

  The president of the Venezuelan Parliament, Juan Guaidó, asked on Saturday his diplomatic representative in the US, Carlos Vecchio, to meet with the leaders of the Southern Command of that country to coordinate possible military cooperation in the face of the Venezuelan crisis. Meanwhile, the minister of defense of the administration of Nicolás Maduro, Vladimir Padrino López, warned on the same day “a provocation” of a US Coast Guard vessel that sailed 20 kilometers away from La Guaira, the main port of Venezuela.