Guaido urges supporters to join 'Mission Freedom'

Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido encouraged supporters to keep protesting against the rule of President Nicolas Maduro. Maduro on Sunday had announced a 30-day plan to ration electricity following the power outages in the country.

Caracas: Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido on Friday encouraged supporters to keep protesting against the rule of President Nicolas Maduro.

Speaking in Caracas, Guaido stressed that organisation and lawful action in line with the country's constitution, would be the way forward to topple the government.

"For those who think we'll get tired; tomorrow there are 358 national points of Operation Freedom - not one, like the regime, which has to summon the whole country to try to defend the three or four blocks where they are shut-in," Guaido told a crowd of supporters in the capital.

Opposition protests were recently ignited in Venezuela after nationwide powercuts left a large percentage of the population without electricity, water supply and communications for days at a time.

Maduro on Sunday announced a 30-day plan to ration electricity following the power outages, which he has blamed on US-led sabotage without offering clear evidence.

Guaido claims that years of government neglect, mismanagement and corruption have left the electrical grid in shambles.