2023-10-07 03:48:16
The Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), which brings together several opposition parties in Venezuela, denounces a “wave of persecution” against its members, after the Prosecutor’s Office issued arrest warrants against the former president of Parliament Juan Guaidó and the former Caracas mayor Antonio Ledezma, exiled in the United States and Spain, respectively. In DW, a summary of Guaidó’s opposition journey.
January 5, 2019: Juan Guaidó was named President of the National Assembly of Venezuela, with an opposition majority, being the youngest person to hold the position.
January 11, 2019: Guaidó, then a deputy for Voluntad Popular, calls for a mobilization in the country and demands the intervention of the Armed Forces and the international community to overthrow the “illegitimate” Government of Nicolás Maduro.
January 23, 2019: With the support of the then US Government of Donald Trump, the Lima Group and other countries, the opposition politician proclaims himself interim or interim president of Venezuela, in parallel with Nicolás Maduro.
January 28, 2019: Juan Guaidó affirms that Maduro and his allies “are already defeated” and that they are only supported by “the weapons of the Republic, as in any bank kidnapping,” and managing the funds, which “has little left.” time”.
January 30, 2019: The Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela freezes the accounts and prohibits Juan Guaidó from leaving the country, for allegedly having “caused damage to peace in the Republic.”
February 10, 2019: Guaidó describes Maduro and the Army as “genocidal”, by preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid to help the population in the midst of a political crisis.
March 28, 2019: Juan Guaidó, recognized by more than fifty countries as the country’s interim president, is disqualified by the Comptroller’s Office as leader of Parliament and is prohibited from holding public office for 15 years.
April 3, 2019: The ruling Constituent Assembly strips Guaidó of his immunity, recognized as “interim president” of Venezuela by more than 50 countries. In this way, it authorizes the highest court to criminally prosecute him for usurpation of functions.
September 17, 2019: The Venezuelan National Assembly, with an opposition majority, ratifies Juan Guaidó as interim president of the country until “the usurpation ceases” by the president, Nicolás Maduro.
January 5, 2020: Guaidó denounces that they prevented him from entering Parliament, where he was to be re-elected. The opponent was later re-elected as president of the Assembly in a parallel and improvised session.
May 26, 2020: Venezuela’s highest court, along Chavista lines, recognizes Luis Parra as president of Parliament, to the detriment of Guaidó.
June 14, 2020: Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó ignores the legitimacy of the new National Electoral Council (CNE), appointed by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), and calls for more international pressure on Maduro and his Government.
January 6, 2021: The European Union (EU) gives its support to working with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó to hold “credible, inclusive and democratic” elections, but avoids treating him as an “interim president”, after the regime of the President Nicolás Maduro assumed control of the National Assembly.
May 11, 2021: The opposition leader proposes resuming negotiations with the Government of Nicolás Maduro to request an election schedule, which includes presidential elections, in exchange for the “progressive lifting” of international sanctions.
January 3, 2022: Guaidó is ratified by the fractured opposition as “in charge of the presidency” of Venezuela.
June 5, 2022: The Venezuelan opponent denounces an “attack by the regime” on the activities he had planned with citizens during a visit he made to the state of Zulia, bordering Colombia, where he was attacked.
July 5, 2022: Guaidó makes a new call to citizens to fight to achieve “the second” independence.
October 7, 2022: While leaving a press conference in the state of Anzoátegui (east), Guaidó suffers a new attack, when the vehicle in which he was traveling was attacked by alleged followers of Chavismo.
December 30, 2022: The opposition makes the decision to eliminate Guaidó’s “interim government.”
March 8, 2023: Juan Guaidó announces that he will be a candidate in the opposition primaries, in which a rival will be chosen to face Nicolás Maduro in the 2024 elections.
April 25, 2023: Before taking a flight to the United States, the Venezuelan opponent denounces having been expelled from Colombia, accusing that Maduro’s “persecution” and “threats” “extended” to the Andean country.
April 27, 2023: Guaidó reveals that he is in Miami, seeking help from the United States and to protect Venezuelans who resist the “dictatorship” of Nicolás Maduro.
May 4, 2023: Guaidó assures that he fears returning to Venezuela, since he believes he could “share the fate” of Alexei Navalni, an activist imprisoned in Russia.
October 5, 2023: Venezuela’s Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, announces that the Public Ministry issued an arrest warrant against Guaidó, who has been in exile in the United States since April. He is accused of several crimes, including money laundering. (rml)
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