Venezuelan opposition leader and twice-failed presidential candidate Henrique Capriles is inciting the military to revolt against democratically-elected President Nicolas Maduro, declared a 60 day state of emergency to deal with the country's spiralling economic crisis.

"This is Maduro putting himself above the constitution," Capriles said.  "To impose this, he'd better start preparing to deploy the war tanks and military jets," he added, "And I tell the armed forces: The hour of truth is coming, to decide whether you are with the constitution or with Maduro."

In 2012, Capriles lost to Hugo Chavez in the late Venezuelan President's final election before he died of cancer.  In the election a year later to determine Mr. Chavez's successor, Capriles lost again to President Maduro.  But Capriles didn't accept the results, directing his supporters to take to the streets.  That fizzled, but other US-friendly opposition figures found themselves with the time and capital to organize more protests in 2014, which have led to the current political crisis.

Venezuela suffers from triple digit inflation and consumer product shortages that President Maduro insists are being caused by his wealthy political opponents, and directed from Washington, DC.  As proof of this, he points to 11 May and 13 May when US military E3 AWAC communication planes invaded Venezuelan airspace. 

"Our military aviation detected the illegal entry, for unusual espionage tasks, of the (AWAC plane), which is an airborne early warning control center system that has all the mechanisms for espionage," said President Maduro, who accused Washington of using the AWACS "to support communications of armed groups in war zones or to prepare actions to disable electronic equipment (of the) government, the armed forces or the economy."