A manhunt is underway for armed rebels who launched an anti-government attack on a military base in Venezuela Sunday, in the latest outbreak of violence to strike the faltering country.About 20 dissident soldiers and civilians, led by a former National Guard captain, entered a military base near Valencia (roughly 120 km west of the capital Caracas) before dawn, making a beeline for a weapons cache, authorities said. Two of the rebels were killed in a firefight, eight were arrested, and the rest escaped with weapons.The rebel group issued its demands via social media with a video message, recorded ahead of the assault, that called for a transitional government to be established immediately, to stop President Nicolas Maduro's increasingly dictatorial actions."This is not a coup d'etat," the group's leader says in the video. "This is a civic and military action to re-establish constitutional order. But more than that, it is to save the country from total destruction."Continue reading on VICE NEWS.