SAO PAULO, April 30 — Brazil’s Foreign Relations Minister Ernesto Araujo said today that his country supports a democratic transition in Venezuela, where opposition leader Juan Guaido hours before said he had begun the "final phase” of his plan to oust President Nicolas Maduro.

Araujo said in a press conference in Brasilia that the Brazilian government expects Venezuela’s military to get behind Guaido today and push Maduro out of power. — Reuters