The United States has been backing a de facto coup d’etat in Venezuela by urging incumbent President Nicolas Maduro to step down in favour of Juan Guaido, an opposition leader, who proclaimed himself the Latin American country’s interim president over a week ago.

Axar.az reports citing Sputnik that, for the second time in two consecutive days, US reconnaissance aircraft has been spotted over Colombia, and as reported by Aircraft Spots, it is an EO-5C N177RA PLOMO27 spy plane.

A journalist who retweeted the photo assumed that the military aircraft was likely used to intercept communications from neighbouring Venezuela, which has plunged into a political crisis, fuelled by Washington.

A Colombian radio station, The FM, reported Wednesday that a number of planes, including one C17A military transport aircraft Globemaster and one Boeing 737, landed on the outskirts of Bogota at Air Command Military Transport (Catam) airport.

The planes reportedly arrived at about 3:00 pm local time [GMT 20:00] from the Dover air base in Delaware before leaving four hours later.

The developments come shortly after the photo of US National Security Adviser John Bolton holding a yellow notepad with the words “5,000 troops to Colombia” on it went viral.

Washington has been actively involved in the political crisis in Venezuela, which saw the head of the opposition-led National Assembly, Juan Guaido, declare himself the country’s interim president, thus challenging the legitimately elected Nicolas Maduro.

Maduro also claimed that Trump had ordered the Colombian government and mafia to kill him in order to gain access to the world’s largest oil reserves, which, by a twist of fate, are in Venezuela.

“If something happens to me, it will be Donald Trump and Colombian President Ivan Duque that are responsible for that”, he told.