Wednesday May 1, 2019By Tom PhillipsPresident blames Trump imperialists and ‘coup-mongering far right’ as rival Juan Guaidó calls for more protestsVenezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro at the Miraflores palace next to defence minister Vladimir Padrino in Caracas, on Tuesday. Photograph: HO/AFP/Getty Images Nicolás Maduro claimed his troops have thwarted a botched attempt to topple him masterminded by Venezuela’s “coup-mongering far right” and Donald Trump’s deranged imperialist “gang”.