The Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó appeared this Monday, free, at the door of his home, shortly after his wife, Fabiana Rosales, denounced that officials of the special police forces (FAES) 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 to protest the possible arrest.
The opposition leader Juan Guaidó offered a press conference after the incident with agents of the Venezuelan regime, in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 12, 2021.
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His appearance came minutes after former opposition deputy 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 will continue to do the right thing" Guevara declared.
Guaidó, for his part, denounced that the Venezuelan regime of Nicolás Maduro kidnapped Guevara and tried to do the same with him by sending a contingent of armed men who came to the basement of his residence
"pointing with long weapons and even activating an explosive."
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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 and mainly Nicolás Maduro," Guaidó declared at the door of your house.
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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He mentioned a message on the social network Twitter 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 exists 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, "wrote the former deputy.
On Sunday, during his 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.' "he threatened.
With information from Efe, El Pitazo and the National Communication Center