Overview
- Venezuela has activated an estado de conmoción exterior that allows authorities to restrict movement, requisition goods for national defense and suspend the right to assemble.
- Following reports of shots and detonations near the presidential palace, Diosdado Cabello released a video flanked by military personnel and later toured the Caricuao parish.
- Cabello urged unity within the armed forces and asserted there is one president, publicly demanding the return of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores.
- Cabello and state-linked reports claim Maduro and Flores are being held in New York on narcoterrorism and drug-trafficking charges, a contention reported in the coverage but not independently confirmed.
- U.N. human-rights chief Volker Türk warned that the reported U.S. intervention and Venezuela’s intensified security posture could worsen abuses and called on all sides to respect international law.