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Security forces guard the shore where authorities claim a group of armed men landed in the port city of La Guaira, Venezuela
WASHINGTON has been accused of orchestrating a coup attempt against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro after the police and armed forces stopped “a terrorist group” entering the country by sea on Sunday.
President of Venezuela’s constituent assembly Diosdado Cabello described the attack as “a coup financed from the United States, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the government of Ivan Duque, president of Colombia.”
Government officials reported eight people were killed during the incident, when mercenaries tried to enter Venezuela, travelling by speedboats along the Caribbean coast and landing near the port of La Guaira, 18 miles from the capital Caracas.
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