CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard around 2 a.m. local time Saturday in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. The government accused the United States of attacking civilian and military installations in multiple states.
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Venezuela’s government, in the statement, called on its supporters to take to the streets.
“People to the streets!” the statement said. “The Bolivarian Government calls on all social and political forces in the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack.”
The statement added that President Nicolás Maduro had “ordered all national defense plans to be implemented” and declared “a state of external disturbance.” That state of emergency gives him the power to suspend people’s rights and expand the role of the armed forces.
This is not a coup, but an invasion. A coup would be local elites overthrowing the government. This however is clearly the US.
“A sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force.”
By that definition it qualifies, but a lot of other definitions specify a small group of instigators
bro, coups can be external. pretending they can’t doesn’t make it so.