Venezuela: President Maduro announces failed coup attempt

The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, announced that the nation's Bolivarian government was able to detect and dismantle a coup attempt in time, and that they have detained several people involved. "This was an attempt to use a group of officials from the military aviation unit to provoke a violent incident, an attack, a last, dying gasp of the 'golpe azul' (blue coup)' that occurred in Venezuela last March," said Maduro. teleSUR.