Venezuela Explodes Into Violence, With Desperate Citizens Capturing Carnage on Their Cellphones
It was the scene everyone had waited for.
Juan Guaidó was standing in the street outside La Carlota military airbase, flanked by military that for once, were there to protect him. By his side was Leopoldo Lopez, founder of the Primero Justicia party and Venezuela’s most famous political prisoner, who had just been released by his military captors.
“This is the final phase of our operation to topple the usurper,” Guaidó said in an impromptu speech released on Twitter early Tuesday morning, but while he was speaking, all eyes were on Lopez, a man many expected never to see alive in freedom again.