CARACAS: Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó has promised the end of the regime of President Nicolás Maduro posting a video of him flanked by soldiers at the main military airbase in Caracas.

“The moment is now,” Guaidó said in a three-minute speech, apparently filmed just before dawn at La Carlota base. “We are going to achieve liberty and democracy for Venezuela.”

Standing beside Guaidó as he spoke was Leopaldo López, an opposition politician who is meant to be under house arrest. As the video ended, the camera panned back to show a few dozen troops lined up, apparently in front of armored troop carriers.

En el marco de nuestra constitución. Y por el cese definitivo de la usurpación. https://t.co/3RD2bnQhxt

— Juan Guaidó (@jguaido) April 30, 2019