CARACAS, Venezuela — Officials in Venezuela say they’ve arrested 27 members of the National Guard accused of launching an uprising against the government.
Socialist party chief Diosdado Cabello says more arrests could come.
Tensions are thick in Venezuela, where the political opposition leaders have called for nationwide protests on Wednesday aimed at driving President Nicolas Maduro from office.
Opposition leader Juan Guaido is urging the armed forces to abandon Maduro and return Venezuela to constitutional rule.
Officials say that national guardsmen in the capital of Caracas took captive a captain in charge of a police station and stole a cache of weapons from another outpost on Monday.
The disturbance sparked street protest in the neighborhood of the police station, which other security forces subdued by shooting tear gas.
