Attorney General warns against scenario similar to 2002 coup

Venezuelan Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz complained that right-wing spokesmen are using private media and social networks such as Twitter to create anxiety in the country, adding that some people want to set up a scenario similar to that on April 11, 2002, when President Hugo Chávez was briefly removed from power.

"I have seen in recent days, through some media and Twitter, people posting threatening messages such as 'You must be prepared for what is going to happen to you in the future.' When somebody makes threats, it means that he or she is going to act outside the law. For instance, when somebody is preparing a coup of state," Ortega Díaz noted.

"I want to warn people that these statements are delicate and are made by people with anti-democratic attitudes," she added.

Ortega urged people not to repeat false rumors.