tweeted this in response we could not have expected less strong the traitor division general francisco esteban yanez retrieve his nephew of general yanez mendez who by the way he's being investigated by the kontrol a general for corruption always loyal never trade his meanwhile there's a mass demonstration in caracas called by opposition leader one guy jill tens of thousands of anti-government protesters are demanding maduro's resignation there's also a huge rival protest in support of the president a latin america it's a new see and human is in caracas with more. we are and he's been cut out as just a few blocks from the office of the european union where tens of thousands and not hundreds of thousands of government opponents are marching at this moment ready for the culmination of a march that was called by supply and interim president one white ball to ask the european union to please join other latin american countries the united states canada and australia today in just a few who have already recognized him as the interim president and can no longer recognize president knew what i smuggled off

tweeted this in response we could not have expected less from the traitor division general francisco esteban yanez rodriguez nephew of the corrupt general yanez mendez by the way is being investigated by the comptroller general for corruption hash tag always loyal never traitors are latin america editor of the cinema is joining us from caracas a correct us how significant is this defection. mean this is a big development as you can. imagine this video viral on the in its way that it is as you say the first time the high ranking general has publicly affected in this way and it comes at a very very crucial i'm sure that meeting next month it has been not only will count on the armed forces and support to stay in power at this point that there is going to question about that but also as the evolution of the bay appearing by the side of different areas of the armed forces be that may be on. the air force. taking part in military exercises trying to show unity at this hour as the opposition appeals over and over again for the armed forces to desert and i would want to come over to the side of that they

in response they said we cannot have expected less from the trades had the vision general francisco esteban yanez rodriguez nephew of the corrupt general yanez mendez who is by the way being investigated by the comptroller general for corruption hash tag always loyal never traitors meanwhile the opposition has called for rallies across venezuela they have already started in the capital caracas madonna has until sunday to comply with a deadline set by the european union to hold elections. has been speaking to al-jazeera he says he's not interested in talks with nicolas maduro latin america editor lucien human. so you had any battled president nicolas maduro overseeing military exercises intended to let opponents know that he has the means with which to crush in israel as internal enemies are clearly not intimidated by the man who insists that he's venezuela's legitimate leader looked at all the part of an interim president as he called on the news wayland's to return to the streets on saturday to further pressure president maduro to resign. in an interview with al-jazeera self-proclaimed president

francisco esteban yet. called on members of the military to follow his lead he is the first active venezuelan general to publicly back since he proclaimed himself president last month general yanezs head of strategic planning with the air force of the air force so is still loyal to nicholas maduro and to it is this in response we could not have a. expected less from the traitor division general francisco esteban rodriguez nephew of general yanis mendez who by the way is being investigated by the controller general for corruption has always never traitors meanwhile there's a mass demonstration right now in caracas called by the opposition leader. tens of thousands of anti-government protesters are demanding nicolas maduro his resignation and is also a huge rival protest in support of the president let's bring in latin america at its end to see a new man who is in caracas for as lucy a tell us about what's been happening in these last few hours. while i'm at the one corner a small corner where this demonstration that began three or four hours ago is still taking place behind me. carnival atmosphere that the demonstration is more or less ending now on another part of me president.