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The first agreement between Juan Guaidó and Nicolás Maduro to "work in coordination" against the pandemic after 17 months of fighting without quarter was received with joy by humanitarian organizations and by the European Union . "Dialogue between the parties is necessary to advance the political process and assist the Venezuelan people," stressed the High Representative, Josep Borrell.

" This will save thousands of lives , but in Venezuela millions of lives are at risk," added exiled MP Miguel Pizarro, representative of the presidency in charge of the United Nations. The agreement foresees that the Government and the opposition will seek resources to fight Covid-19 and will have the assistance of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), which has become an impartial arbitrator and guarantor of the pact.

The three parts will focus on the detection of active cases , epidemiological surveillance and treatment of those infected in a country suffering from the destruction of its health system, as well as on the protection of medical personnel, who are "naked" today. In Venezuela, 1,819 positive cases have been officially detected and 18 deaths have been registered, very low figures in relation to those of its neighbors, but overshadowed by the absence of PCR tests, only 100 per day.

"The agreement comes when it is probable that the spread of the coronavirus has a pattern similar to that of the rest of the countries, a progressive growth in cases that with the appropriate measures will gradually decrease weeks later, " said Feliciano Reyna, one of the leaders of Codevida. .

The humanitarian entity includes political edges made in Venezuela , despite being a "positive agreement, one of the few cases of winning winning. Both poles gain legitimacy , the repressive government and the interim demonstrating that it has something to offer," says the historian Armando Chaguaceda, specialist in revolutions.

Bubble

"It is a bubble within the panorama. Maduro sees a greater crisis with the coronavirus coming and has no way of facing it in the absence of resources. This can generate unusual political costs. He sees the possibility of using the resources that Guaidó has obtained and putting them in the hands of PAHO . Maduro flees forward and Guaidó redirects his leadership by becoming more oxygen-rich, "stresses the political scientist Luis Salamanca, who sees no other possible agreements, especially the political solution to the crisis through elections.

"It takes a lot of courage to sit down with Nicolás and agree on joint measures to confront Covid-19. This political measure lays bare the sentence of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) and the Dialogue Table (with opposition groups). Nicolás acknowledges this politically to the National Assembly (AN) and Guaidó ", summarized analyst Alexis Aguirre after learning the points of the agreement that was received by the opposition radicals.

In fact, Antonio Ledezma, former metropolitan mayor of Caracas in exile, expressed his discomfort by demanding that Guaidó that the priority agreement that "you should sign is with the DEA (US Anti-Narcotics Agency that has put a price on Maduro's head ) to take away this gang of drug traffickers. "

Chavismo added more gasoline to the opposition fire with a poisoned gift for Guaidó on the same night of the agreement: the release of his uncle, Juan José Márquez. Accused of arms trafficking through an outrageous assembly, the opposition leader's maternal uncle has spent three and a half months in the dungeons of the largest torture center in Latin America, transformed into a golden prisoner for the revolution.

Benefiting from provisional release who will live under house arrest, the Maduro government casts shadows on the agreement and puts stress on the 451 families of political prisoners subjected to Bolivarian injustice .

"It is a government trap," says Chaguaceda, from which Guaidó himself wanted to sneak away, denouncing on his social networks that "the dictatorship continues to use political prisoners to frighten and confuse."

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