VENEZUELA’S President Nicolas Maduro warned the military at the weekend of a “large-scale crisis” brewing and foreshadowing a showdown between the socialist government and opposition-led legislature.
“We’re facing a large-scale crisis that is going to generate a power struggle between two poles — the patriots and the anti-patriots,” the president declared.
“It’s a conflict that is going to create big tensions ... It’s a counter-revolutionary crisis.”
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