Venezuela opposition leader dismisses govt 'coup' claim

In Venezuela, opposition leader Juan Guaido dismissed government claims of an attempted coup, and said he would continue calls on the armed forces to abandon President Nicolas Maduro.

Guaido told reporters, it is the same story for the umpteenth time, and the press has lost count of how many times the same accusations have been repeated.

Earlier, Venezuela's government claimed that it has foiled an attempted coup, claiming the United States, Colombia and Chile colluded in a plot by officers to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro and install a general in his place.

Venezuela's Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez said, the plan involved both active and retired army officers and was to have been executed between Sunday and Monday of this week.

He also accused Colombia's right-wing President Ivan Duque of planning coups, assassinations of the president as well as implicating Chile's conservative President Sebastian Pinera and US National Security Advisor John Bolton in the plot. (AIR NEWS)

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