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The surprising agreement between Chavismo and the opposition has already caused the first consequence: the parole of Juan José Márquez, Juan Guaidó's maternal uncle and one of the 450 political prisoners in Nicolás Maduro's dungeons. Sources from the presidency in charge confirmed to EL MUNDO that Márquez has received a house in jail after three and a half months of unjust imprisonment, caused by a crazy assembly devised by his intelligence agents, who accused him of trafficking arms and explosives.

Márquez, one of the closest relatives and loved ones of the legitimate president of Parliament, accompanied his nephew on his return to the country after the successful international tour that brought him together with the main leaders of the planet and culminated in his presence in the state's speech of the Union in the United States. After being arrested and charged, Márquez was confined in one of the "hells" of the revolution: the Caracas headquarters of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim), a torture center where Captain Rafael Acosta was assassinated last year and in the one that is mistreated by the military captured by Chavismo. Guaidó's uncle is not a military man.

With Márquez's arrest, the revolution hit Guaidó where it hurts the most: in the heart. Chavismo knew from the first day that he had his golden political prisoner behind bars, a 58-year-old civilian pilot, the younger brother of Guaidó's mother.

The release occurs only hours after the first agreement between the democratic opposition and the revolution was made public, with which it intends to combat the pandemic under the auspices of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Guaidó himself was in charge of giving the news to the world, through a statement, confirmed hours later by Jorge Rodríguez, vice president of Communication.

"We had wanted to keep secret the signing of the agreement between the Ministry of Health and the team of an opposition sector, the G-4 (the fourth most important parties of the democratic opposition) but as there have been publications in media close to the opposition, I want to read it, "Rodríguez revealed. Both parties will work in coordination to obtain financial resources to fight the pandemic.

Radical sectors of the opposition have openly criticized the agreement with the Maduro government, since they assure that in this way it gives it legitimacy. In this context, the release of Guaidó's relative is carried out to deepen the differences between different sectors of the opposition, since it is unknown whether the rest of the political prisoners will also receive precautionary measures.

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