Approximately 50 countries recognize Guaido as Venezuela’s president, arguing that current President Nicolas Maduro’s re-election last year was a sham
Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido talks during a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Friday, March 1, 2019.Opposition leader Juan Guaido is calling for nationwide demonstrations Monday to coincide with his planned return to Venezuela, in a challenge expected to escalate his power struggle with President Nicolas Maduro.
The leader of the National Assembly who has declared himself president also tweeted a photo of himself walking across an airfield ahead of his departure from the naval base in Salinas, Ecuador, where he met with Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno on Saturday. Guaido said he was “taking off,” but did not say where the plane was heading.In Venezuela, anticipation grew ahead of Guaido’s expected arrival.
Venezuela’s vice-president, Delcy Rodriguez, did not directly address a question about whether Guaido faces arrest during an interview with Russian state-owned TV channel RT. But she left open the possibility, saying Guaido had broken the law and is “a Venezuelan who conspires with foreign governments to overthrow a constitutional government.”
Guaido was in Ecuador as part of a tour of Latin American countries designed to increase pressure on Maduro to resign.
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