Leopoldo López says that there was contact with Vladimir Padrino to remove Maduro from power | Video | CNN

The Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López recounts the contacts he had with the military leadership of Venezuela, including the Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino, during April 2019, in the framework of the preparation of the civil military uprising to remove the questioned President Nicolás Maduro from power . However, on April 30, 2019, Padrino maintained his loyalty to Maduro and published a tweet in which he rejected this "coup" movement that, according to him, would fill the country with violence. "The pseudo political leaders who have placed themselves at the forefront of this subversive movement have used troops and policemen with weapons of war on a public thoroughfare in the city to create anxiety and terror," the official wrote.