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"We highlight what happened in Spain, where Nicolás Maduro has a friend: Pablo Iglesias." The deputy Amelia Belisario summed up this Monday the majority sentiment of the Venezuelan opposition, surprised and fearful by the fulminating influence of Podemos in relation to Venezuela, but conspired to maintain the official speech of Juan Guaidó: avoid at all costs the fight with Pedro Sánchez , starting with the statements. At least for now.

A fight that did occur internally before the trip to Madrid of the president in charge. The struggle between the supporters to annul it and those who wanted to keep it, with Leopoldo López in the lead, intensified until Guaidó himself decided to keep his hand out, despite the "grievances" and in the midst of the storm over the "encounter" between Vice President Delcy Rodríguez and Minister José Luis Ábalos.

While Boris Johnson , Angela Merkel , Emmanuel Macron and (this Monday) Justin Trudeau gave their support to Guaidó, Sánchez sent his chancellor and went to the Goya . All a declaration of intentions of the socialist leader, partner in the Socialist International ( IS ) of three of the four parties that make up the majority of the opposition Democratic Unit , surprised with the turn of the Sanchez: the Social Democratic Action , the Social Christian Un Nuevo Tiempo and Popular Will , López's party and from which Guaidó comes. It was precisely after an SI meeting in Santo Domingo when Sánchez described Maduro as a tyrant and his government, as a dictatorship.

"The support of the SI is total to the struggle of President Guaidó and the National Assembly (AN). Even in 2019 the Sandinista Front of Daniel Ortega was expelled for his antidemocratic practices. This is an absolutely unequal fight against totalitarianism, in the We can be associated with the Forum of Sao Paulo and the worst regimes in Latin America, such as Cuba and Nicaragua, but we must clearly separate what the PSOE is, which continues to recognize Guaidó. not to receive him, because in the end all the Democrats must unite to safeguard a people who are suffering, "exiled deputy Luis Florido from Otawa told EL MUNDO, before Trudeau's appointment.

Latin America is no longer crucial

"The Venezuelans, very grateful and pleased with the unequivocal position of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya, in support of President Guaidó and the free elections in Venezuela," said the ambassador in Madrid, Antonio Ecarri , a militant of AD and very Close to its leader.

Ecarri will no longer be able to dispatch in the new Administration with the Secretary of State for Latin America and Cooperation, Juan Pablo de Laiglesia , because Latin America disappears from that crucial position and must be confirmed with a general direction. One floor further down the stairs of power or a footnote, as American experts complain. Also a sample of relaxation, of not wanting to intervene.

Within the opposition, one thing is public statements and another, very different, doubts and discomfort that run through the opposition after the turn taken by Sánchez. Iglesias confirmed the drift in his interview on Sunday to La Vanguardia : "We do not intervene in the conflict in Venezuela, it does not apply to us."

The leader of Podemos has also joined the small group - Maduro, Russia and Cuba - that recognizes the fraudulent president of the AN, imposed by arms thanks to a legislative coup by Chavismo. "The first effect of the landing of Podemos is that the Government of Sanchez has become ambiguous and confusing in relation to Venezuela. The political cost is high, perhaps the president pondered that the political cost within the Government was the most important before the precarious of his support. Iglesias has begun demanding important conditions ", summarizes for this newspaper the political scientist Luis Salamanca , former rector of the National Electoral Council.

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