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		</div><p>Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has taken to the streets with a small contingent of heavily armed troops in a bold and risky attempt to lead a military uprising and oust socialist leader Nicolas Maduro.</p>
<p>The early-morning rebellion seems to have only limited military support.</p>
<p>But it was by far the most-serious challenge yet to Mr Maduro’s rule since Mr Guaido, with the backing of the US, declared himself the country’s interim president in January in rejection of a government he accused of “usurping” power.</p>
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<p>The dramatic events began early Tuesday when Mr Guaido, flanked by a few dozen national guardsmen and some armoured vehicles, released a three-minute video filmed near a Caracas air base in which he called on civilians and others in the armed forces to join a final push to topple Mr Maduro.</p>
<p><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1B4C14D3-837D-4BBE-BEA8-0F3084D319AB.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-131051" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1B4C14D3-837D-4BBE-BEA8-0F3084D319AB.jpeg" alt="" width="1096" height="1695" /></a></p>
<p>In a surprise, standing alongside him was Leopoldo Lopez, his political mentor and the nation’s most-prominent opposition activist, who has largely been unseen since he was detained in 2014 for leading anti-government protests.</p>
<p>Mr Lopez said he had been released from house arrest by security forces adhering to an order from Mr Guaido.</p>
<p>“I want to tell the Venezuelan people: This is the moment to take to the streets and accompany these patriotic soldiers,” Mr Lopez declared.</p>
<figure id="attachment_131053" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-131053" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/DF9822CA-CA5A-44C9-8459-FB86DD8A6305.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-131053" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/DF9822CA-CA5A-44C9-8459-FB86DD8A6305.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-131053" class="wp-caption-text">Opponents of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro throw stones at soldiers</figcaption></figure>
<p>As the two allies coordinated actions from vehicles parked on a highway overpass, troops loyal to Mr Maduro sporadically fired tear gas from inside the adjacent Carlota air base.</p>
<p>A crowd that quickly swelled to a few thousand scurried for cover, with a smaller group of masked youths reassembling outside the air base’s gates where they lobbed rocks and other heavy objects.</p>
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<p>“It’s now or never,” said one of the young rebellious soldiers, his face covered in the blue bandanna worn by the few dozen soldiers who stood alongside Mr Guaido and Mr Lopez.</p>
<p>Mr Maduro tried to project an image of strength, saying he had wspoken to several regional military commanders who reaffirmed their loyalty to his socialist revolution.</p>
<figure id="attachment_131055" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-131055" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/280AD180-5038-4B8B-BF37-A4E792EB5731.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-131055" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/280AD180-5038-4B8B-BF37-A4E792EB5731.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="398" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-131055" class="wp-caption-text">Rebel troops who are rising up against the government of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro fire their weapons</figcaption></figure>
<p>“Nerves of steel!,” he said in a message posted on Twitter.</p>
<p>The dramatic events, playing out in the opposition’s stronghold in wealthier neighbourhood of eastern Caracas, appeared not to have triggered a broader military revolt.</p>
<p>Defence minister Vladimir Padrino on Twitter rejected what he called an attempt by a “subversive movement” to generate “panic and terror.”</p>
<p>The ruling socialist party chief, Diosdado Cabello, said most of Caracas was calm and called on government supporters to amass at the presidential palace to defend Mr Maduro from what he said was a US-backed coup attempt.</p>
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<p>About a dozen government supporters, some of them brandishing firearms, gathered at the presidential palace, answering the call by Mr Cabello to defend Mr Maduro.</p>
<p>“It’s time to defend the revolution with arms,” Valentin Santana, head of a militant group, said in a video posted on social media as he brandished an automatic rifle.</p>
<p>Mr Guaido said the troops who had taken to the streets were protecting Venezuela’s constitution.</p>
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