Civil war in the Venezuelan opposition

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The elimination of the presidency in charge has been followed by a storm of accusations between its different leaders and leaders that makes any attempt at unity in the democratic opposition unfeasible.

And at the worst moment: this political civil war contrasts with the revival of street protests, led by teachers, public employees and heavy industry workers, who are fighting for a living wage and in dollars.

They have come out by the thousands throughout the country and are maintaining their pulse against the Government, despite the arrests of various trade unionists.

A popular struggle outside the parties, engaged in destroying each other in the face of the primary elections, scheduled for June

.

They are so disenchanted that they are not even taken into account in their mobilizations.

"Behind this decision (the elimination of the presidency in charge) there were clearly agreements with the dictatorship, to seek accommodation with the dictatorship," shot Leopoldo López, leader of Voluntad Popular (VP) and main supporter of the former president in charge, Juan Guaidó, who He also assured that they are not willing to participate in a false unit.

López, in exile in Madrid, attacked the G-3, made up of the centrist Primero Justicia (PJ), the social democrat Acción Democrática (AD) and the social Christian Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT), the new majority that promoted the removal of Guaidó and which has elected a new board of directors, headed by the president of the National Assembly (AN), Dinorah Figuera.

The one who came out worse off was Julio Borges, leader of the PJ, whom López accused of benefiting from the interim government despite the fact that he later acted against him and of "disparaging a figure (Guaidó) that he himself was representing."

PJ responded immediately: "We see with great concern expressions from sectors of the opposition that are impregnated with the same characteristics that the Maduro regime has: lies, disqualification and hatred.

, fill with hopelessness to the Venezuelan people and destroy unity".

López also had words about the negotiation of Mexico,

, in reference to the delegates of AD and PJ.

For VP, on the other hand, the president of the opposition commission, the constitutionalist Gerardo Blyde, is an honest and committed person.

Despite the bombing, VP will continue betting on primaries that "are deadlocked. I believe that Manuel Rosales (opposition governor of Zulia) and Henrique Capriles (former presidential candidate) are interested in finding a candidate by consensus. A candidacy that does not come from people are destined to fail," Lopez said.

VP bets on Guaidó to be the opposition candidate who faces Maduro in 2024 in a process full of obstacles.

The Unitary Platform, which with great difficulty still integrates the democratic opposition, tried to calm things down with a final appeal: "The adversary is in (presidential palace) Miraflores and not among us."

Meanwhile, that adversary moves the pieces at his whim: he intends to change the National Electoral Council (CNE) to replace an opponent with a collaborator.

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