Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday accused the opposition in V...
Opposition demonstrators crouch down, taking cover on a street near the Generalisimo Francisco de Miranda Airbase"La Carlota" in Caracas, Venezuela April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
The ministry made the allegation after Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido called for a military uprising to oust President Nicolas Maduro and armed factions exchanged gunfire outside a Caracas air base as the country hit a new crisis point after years of political and economic chaos. “The radical opposition in Venezuela has once again returned to violent methods of confrontation,” the foreign ministry said. “Instead of peacefully settling political differences, they have taken a course designed to whip up conflict, and provoke breaches of public order and clashes involving the armed forces.”
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