• Venezuela A Chavista judge sends opposition Freddy Guevara to Helicoide prison

"Seeing the Cuban people encourages us", said today in Madrid the Venezuelan opposition

Leopoldo López

, who is convinced that the massive protests against the government of

Díaz Canel

"are going to affect Venezuela" and are "a sign of hope" . "There will be a relationship in the fate of Cuba and Venezuela," López defended this Friday at a press conference in which he assumed that, with other countries in the region now on the news target,

there is "fatigue"

regarding the Venezuelan cause.

"I understand that our crisis has lasted a long time but do not forget what continues to happen in Venezuela," the opponent, who lives in Spain, asked the press, before recalling that his compatriots "suffer the consequences of the Maduro dictatorship." and that 90% of the population, he has assured, is in a situation of poverty.

López has denounced the recent arrest of former opposition deputy Freddy Guevara as well as the attempted kidnapping of Juan Guaidó, showing several videos in which unidentified Bolivarian police officers are seen beating and forcing entry to Guaidó's vehicle, whence their driver is forcibly removed.

Guaidó himself said later that he was not arrested thanks to the intervention of several neighbors who came to the scene.

López has pointed out that this "persecution" of the opposition "gets worse every day" and has admitted that "

this repressive wave affects the negotiation process and the strengthening of an agreement",

although he did not want to specify how.

Guevara, who has been held in the Helicoide prison since yesterday, sought to open

a new dialogue table to resolve the Venezuelan crisis,

a negotiation that would take place in Mexico under the mediation of Norway and that had the approval of the international community.

The actions of the opposition from now on will be "announced and taken in unity," Lopez has announced.

During his speech, the Venezuelan opponent also celebrated the recent appointment of

José Manuel Albares, a

diplomat, as the new Foreign Minister. "

A new opportunity opens

with Foreign Minister Albares", has acknowledged Leopoldo López, who hopes that "he will be very proactive regarding the cause of Venezuela. We know that he knows very well what is happening in our country" and "we hope that Spain will lead the process of reaching free and fair parliamentary and presidential elections. "

López, asked about the recent statements by some Podemos ministers who question that Cuba is a dictatorship, has acknowledged "shocked."

These statements "affect democracies" and "normalize authoritarianism, arbitrariness and the violation of rights," he continued, before warning that "social democracy has a great challenge:

that the extreme left takes away their democratic vocation."


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