• Venezuela.Juan Guaidó, ratified at the headquarters of 'El Nacional': "It's time to raise your voice, we need to take the rest"
  • Shortage: Venezuela: another New Year's Eve in the midst of darkness

Juan Guaidó and Luis Parra have met tomorrow in the National Assembly (AN) in a political duel full of uncertainties. "We know that we will risk the skin. It is not the AN that is at stake, but the republic," said the legitimate president of Parliament on Monday, who will attend the front of the 100 deputies who re-elected him in a session on Sunday night Extraordinary held at the headquarters of the newspaper El Nacional .

The republic or the little that remains of it, after the legislative coup orchestrated by Chavism to displace those who have become their worst enemies: the democratic Parliament, its deputies and its president, who was received with an ovation in El Nacional after struggle for hours with the military forces that took the Federal Legislative Palace forcibly .

"We are going to put the chest, Venezuela is worth it, our children are worth it. Tomorrow (for today) we are going to risk the physique. We ask that they accompany us," said Guaidó, who already has the pronouncement in favor of the Student Movement.

Everything indicates that Venezuela will live today another of its extreme days, of those that are filling the chapters of the tragic surrealism of a revolution that turns 21 years old. Guaidó has accepted in this way the "invitation" made by his until recently fellow Democratic Unit, Luis Parra, who yesterday settled in his office with military assistance, the same one he had on Sunday's equinoctial day.

The reality is that if Chavistas and expelled from the opposition want to comply with parliamentary regulations, which would be a novelty, they need the presence of democratic deputies. The official group does not add even 70 votes , compared to the 100 round the opposition. From the initial list you have to count and discount holders and substitutes and draw a round account, which will always be favorable to Guaidó unless the military again intervenes.

All this when the attempts of bribery, the famous "green briefcases" have not stopped circulating, after the jump of "talanquera" (change of political side) of at least 16 parliamentarians and leaders. "The traitorous deputies offered me $ 750,000 to distort the popular will and not support Guaidó. Unfortunately, some fell into that betrayal, " said deputy José Hernández, who did not accept the songs of the millionaire siren. It must be taken into account that the deputies are four years old without pay and that Chavism prevents state funding of the parties.

The Maduro maneuver, which will not be the last one, caused the immediate international condemnation of the Lima Group, with the main countries of the region, plus the United States, the OAS and the European Union, whose High Representative in Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell denounced "the serious irregularities and acts against the democratic and constitutional functioning of the AN", in addition to recognizing Guaidó as the only legislative president.

All these, traditional detractors of revolutionary abuses, were joined by old allies of Chavismo, such as Uruguay, Mexico and Argentina. " The acts of harassment suffered by deputies, journalists and members of the diplomatic corps are inadmissible for democratic coexistence," said Alberto Fernández's cabinet chancery.

On the other side, the hard ones, led by Vladimir Putin's Russia, Cuba and Nicaragua, more allies such as Colombian leftist leader Gustavo Petro and Spaniard Juan Carlos Monedero (Podemos), who lined up unrestrictedly with their friends from Caracas.

"The recognition of the Government to an AN directive appointed by a rough and illegitimate ploy is irrelevant. It does not achieve international recognition or the defenestration of Guaidó , but the opposite, further isolating itself and moving the country away from a negotiated solution," he said. political scientist Luis Vicente Léon, president of Datanlisis.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • Venezuela
  • European Union
  • Josep Borrell
  • Juan Carlos Monedero
  • Juan Guaidó
  • OAS

European Union Borrell asks for realism in Venezuela: "If Maduro does not want to leave, divinity is not fixed with invocations"

Venezuela Chavismo deepens its attacks against Josep Borrell

Venezuela Nicolás Maduro's special forces detain another deputy