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Venezuela president declares emergency, cites U.S., domestic 'threats'

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro gestures as he talks to supporters during a rally to commemorate May Day, in Caracas, Venezuela, May 1, 2016.

VENEZUELA: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared a 60-day state of emergency on Friday due to what he called plots from within the OPEC country and the United States to topple his leftist government.

Maduro did not provide details of the measure. A previous state of emergency, implemented in states near the Colombian border last year, suspended constitutional guarantees in those areas, except for guarantees relating to human rights.

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