US media have confirmed tonight (early morning in Spain) that Juan Guaidó will attend as a guest of Donald Trump to the speech that the US president will give about the state of the Union. This puts an end to the uncertainty created during the last week about whether the president in charge of Venezuela would receive the public support of the government that first recognized him during his challenge against Nicolás Maduro.
"Excited to see Juan Guaidó tonight in the State of the Union speech. Thank you Donald Trump for his continued commitment to the brave people of Venezuela in his fight for freedom and democracy," said Senator Rick Scott, one of the main defenders of the Republican Party in the democratic struggle in Venezuela.
"An unprecedented fact that strengthens the fight for democracy in our country," said exiled deputy Luis Florido, who has accompanied the legitimate president of the National Assembly (AN) during his tour of Canada and the United States.
Guaidó has remained 48 hours without a public agenda awaiting a meeting at the summit with Trump, which will finally take place before the US Congress on an emblematic date. In this way, the opposition leader will have talked in 17 days, since he escaped the revolutionary vigilance in Venezuela, with several of the most important leaders of the planet: the British premier, Boris Johnson; German Chancellor Angela Merkel; the French president, Emmanuel Macron; Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Trump himself. In addition, Guaidó held meetings with the Colombian president, Iván Duque, and with the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, in addition to participating in the world forum of Davos and going to Brussels to talk with Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union to Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
At the same time, Nicolás Maduro only held a meeting with the Palestinian ambassador in Caracas, although the Chavez chief waits for this week in Caracas the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov.
Guaidó will not be the only Venezuelan opponent invited to the annual speech. Iván Simonovis, appointed by Guaidó as special coordinator of Security and Intelligence of Venezuela in the US, will also attend as Trump's special guest, after starring in a film leak from Caracas. Chavismo kept Simonovis, a former police chief in Caracas, behind bars between 2004 and 2014. Since then he remained under house arrest, from which he escaped last year.
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