FAILED opposition leader Juan Guaido warned of plans to silence Venezuelan TV station Telesur on Saturday, claiming that the state media outlet “supports terrorists.”

“In the next few days we keep moving forward: tomorrow we announce the steps to recover the Telesur signal in the continent,” he said on Twitter.

And in a video recording he said that he intends to block the channel’s ability to report, claiming that it “supports terrorists,” without offering any supporting evidence.

The move comes days after Mr Guiado was ousted as speaker of the National Assembly and was described as “a dream that turned into a nightmare” by the Venezuelan opposition.

In a chaotic session he was replaced by right-wing politician Luis Parra, but refused to accept the outcome of the vote and held his own meeting outside the opposition El Nacional newspaper.

His bid to oust the democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro backfired spectacularly with a series of humiliating failures to launch an armed uprising.

The people of Venezuela and its military have continued to support Mr Maduro and the Bolivarian government.