Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó appeared this Monday, free, at the door of his home, shortly after his wife, Fabiana Rosales, denounced that officials from the elite group (FAES) of the police were at his residence to arrest him.
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Fear and intimidation have never stopped us.
We are firm in our convictions to demand a solution to the conflict that Venezuela is going through, ”Guaidó told a group of journalists who were at the door of his home, where a small group of supporters also gathered to protest the possible arrest.
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The incident occurred minutes after former opposition MP Freddy Guevara broadcast live, from his vehicle, his arrest on a Caracas avenue.
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I decided to stay in my country despite all these problems and the possibility of being arrested again,
knowing that we are in a dictatorial regime.
But I am absolutely convinced that I did the right thing, that I am going to continue doing the right thing, ”Guevara said in the broadcast.
Guaidó affirms that the Venezuelan regime kidnapped Guevara and tried to do the same with him by sending a contingent of armed men who arrived at the basement of his residence
"pointing long weapons at us and even activating an explosive"
where they held him momentarily along with members of his team .
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"At this time we do not even know which organization they were from because they did not come with identification, that is, they may be paramilitaries, they may be FAES, DGCIM, SEBIN but, at this time, I hold them all responsible, mainly Nicolás Maduro," Guaidó declared. at the door of your house.
Likewise, he denounced that he does not know where the former opposition deputy Freddy Guevara is being held, who was arrested minutes before the police officers appeared at his residence.
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Who is harassing and kidnapping Freddy Guevara?
Who chased down to the basement and who set off an explosive in the basement of our homes?" He asked.
Guaidó also took the opportunity to distance himself from the accusations by the Maduro government of being allegedly linked to the armed groups installed in the Caracas neighborhood Cota 905 and reiterated that these gangs are financed by the "dictatorship."
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In addition, he asked the Government if with this arrest attempt they are "sabotaging" the negotiation process that he promotes.
"Are they afraid of reaching a national salvation agreement? It is the dictatorship that is afraid of them in any case. We remain firm in our convictions and in what we are looking for," he said.
He reiterated that the agreement is to save Venezuela, and if "they believe that by intimidating, if they believe that by generating some type of harassment they are going to stop us, we are not going to do it."
Lastly, Guaidó called on the international community to support "the Venezuelan, Cuban and also Nicaraguan struggle."
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Leopoldo López, opposition leader and member of the Popular Will party, denounced the incidents that occurred on Monday.
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The dictatorship once again lashes out cowardly.
This time, the repressive and extermination groups of Maduro arbitrarily detain deputy Freddy Guevara, "he wrote on his Twitter account.
"We hold Nicolás Maduro responsible for his physical integrity," López wrote.
Guevara was pardoned by presidential decree on August 31 and left the Chilean Embassy in Caracas on September 9, where he took refuge on November 4, 2017 after being accused of instigating the anti-government protests that occurred that same year.
The former parliamentarian, very close to Guaidó, was mentioned this Saturday by the executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, during the balance he offered together with the Minister of the Interior, Carmen Meléndez, of the shootings that devastated part of western Caracas last week.
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Rodríguez mentioned a tweet that Guevara published during the clashes between criminal gangs and police that paralyzed part of life in the west of the capital between Wednesday and Friday.
"What does the National Salvation Agreement have to do with this mega drama that takes place in Caracas with the armed gangs, Apure and the Arco Minero? Everything:
only with a political agreement endorsed by the international community will the State be able to regain territorial control
of the country ", published the ex-deputy.
On Sunday, during a speech, Maduro referred to the clashes, in which three agents of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) and one of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB, Militarized Police) died.
"In the next few hours, more elements and more evidence of the articulation of the extreme right-wing coup will be known with this plan of unleashed violence, of unleashed terrorism to try to generate what they said 'an armed popular insurrection from the neighborhoods of Caracas.' ", promised the ruler.
In this regard, he stressed that they sought to generate "a civil war among Venezuelans."
With information from EFE, El Pitazo and the National Communication Center