translated from Spanish: Leopoldo López does not rule out a military intervention in Venezuela

Military intervention in Venezuela is an option that is still present among the opposition to the Government of Nicolas Maduro, because it is a legal alternative that includes the Constitution, said Thursday in an exclusive interview with the leader of the party will Popular Leopoldo López EFE.
“We do not rule out any scenario that is within the Constitution and the Constitution provides that that is a possibility. I hope that we don’t have to get to that point, but we do not rule it, because it is constitutional, because freedom is the condition of everything else”, said Lopez.
For the opposition leader, who remained under house arrest until he was freed by a group of military and intelligence (Sebin) Bolivarian service officials last Tuesday, are not going to solve the country’s problems until you “conquer the” freedom’.
“And we will be Venezuelans that we will achieve the cessation of the usurpation. There to thank and recognize the support that we have received from the international community. President Juan Guaidó has been recognized by 58 countries. There was no an international coalition for a cause of liberation with so much international support since the second world war”, he said.
Lopez said that “there is nothing that precludes using constitutional legal tools to try to achieve freedom, because freedom in Venezuela is measured with deaths”, because “every day that passes is a day in which dying children for malnutrition, osobama in” hospitals, by insecurity”.
About the support that has opposition within the military, he stressed that much of the uniformed personnel of the armed forces are next to the opposition cause.
It was considered that the most important down at these time barrier is “fear”, who believes, began to fall on Tuesday when he led a military uprising alongside Juan Guaidó, recognized by fifty countries as Acting President.
“Now, what we have to come down? The fear. What did the April 30? We started to collapse in a forceful way the fear of the men and women of the armed forces to make decisions to act,”said Lopez.
The opponent, who said that “several conversations occurred” with prominent members of chavism, whose names did not provide, said that you Maduro is surrounded by people in his “most intimate setting” who want to “out of power”.
Despite not ruled out international military intervention, insisted that “there should be a peaceful process, which does not have recourse to violence but has to rely on the strength of the people and the military”.
Asked about the uprising of last Tuesday, said that he conceived it as “a day that had to send a strong message, clear, accession of active officials with capacity to execute actions”.
That day, guided and Lopez, hours after being released, led a military uprising that was intended to trigger a movement in the barracks to overthrow Maduro, who, even though he had no great echo among the uniformed, multiplied the rumours about the loyalty to the President.
“Mature today cannot trust or who served him coffee. He knows that his own environment wants it out, knows that his own environment is in talks with us at all levels, and he knows that you have to simulate that it has control,”he reiterated.
According to Lopez, “the break” the Government of mature “will continue”, as well as international pressure.
And those two elements, next to popular pressure, “will continue simultaneously bolstering when the time that the encroachment is can already cesar”.
Lopez was arrested in 2014 and sentenced to 14 years in prison, accused of leading the violent acts in the anti-Government marches that took place that year.
The opponent served his sentence for almost three years in a military prison and the rest kept house arrest until her release last Tuesday.

Original source in Spanish