Juan Guaidó, recognized as interim president of Venezuela by more than 50 countries, responded this Sunday to recent threats from Nicolás Maduro and ratified his commitment to the fight to restore democracy in the country.
“Nicolás, I remind you that you are the one accused of crimes once morest humanity, requested for drug trafficking and terrorism with an arrest warrant and reward,” Guaidó said in a video published on his official networks.
He assured that Maduro hijacks power and that currently there are few people who trust his government.
“You cowardly killed the possibility of signatures in 2016 and now you evade the presidential election and threaten me locked up in a palace that you usurp,” added the Venezuelan opponent.
He also ratified the need for a solution, to have guarantees: «You have an expiration date, even in your logic. It is time for a comprehensive agreement. We will be where we always are, with the people, in the street, where you have been afraid to be for a long time, and we will be exercising the majority in a peaceful manner.
“What Venezuela needs is national salvation,” he concluded.
«You get Tocorón, puppet thief»
Nicolás Maduro threatened this Sunday to send Juan Guaidó to jail, who is three years old following being sworn in as president in charge of Venezuela.
During his speech at a commemorative event at the Miraflores Palace, Maduro stated that they knew that the White House was “trying to impose a puppet president” on the country. This, he assured, with the intention of “executing a coup plan and military intervention and control of political power in Venezuela.”
“You get Tocorón, puppet thief. Fair and constitutional justice sometimes takes time, but it will come, it will come. Rest assured, the people of Venezuela, that there will be justice here,” he said.
For his part, Diosdado Cabello recalled that he met with Guaidó three years ago and that since then “he continues to make a fool of himself.”
They ask for speed in “the application of justice” to Guaidó
A group of Chavista deputies, elected in 2020, went this Sunday to the headquarters of the Prosecutor’s Office in Caracas to demand “speed, efficiency and effectiveness in the application of justice” to Guaidó, whom they accuse of corruption.
“We have moved to the headquarters of the Prosecutor’s Office to demand speed, efficiency and effectiveness in the application of justice once morest Juan Guaidó and the parliamentary gang that has dedicated itself to violating the constitution, to attacking the assets of the Republic” Tania Diaz told reporters.
He considered that the opponent, together with a group of legislators elected in 2015 whose names he did not mention, “have promoted looting, sanctions and the economic blockade that has done so much damage to the Venezuelan people.”
For all these reasons, the Chavista deputies presented a letter to the Prosecutor’s Office in which they claim to exercise “the constitutional right to have access to the justice administration bodies in order to request… speed in the imposition of justice for damages caused to the homeland” to Guaidó and “his accomplices”.
They also demanded “to put an end to the impunity of these events and guarantee the existence of an expeditious justice” and “without undue delay”, that does not suffer from “useless formalisms or replacements”.
Despite the threats, and without expecting good faith from a dictator, I confirm the need for a solution.
Recovering democracy and protecting the most vulnerable is the priority pic.twitter.com/ENTGCi29ch
– Juan Guaidó (@jguaido) January 24, 2022
