Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó reappeared this Saturday (06.06.2020) walking through streets in Caracas days after President Nicolás Maduro insinuated that he had taken refuge in a diplomatic headquarters.
Guaidó toured the east of the Venezuelan capital one of the queues that have formed these days to buy gasoline and that represent hours of waiting throughout the country, according to a video disseminated by its press team. During the trek, the opponent calls on the population to rebel against Maduro who he believes is the sole culprit for the rationing of gasoline and the failures presented by supply in the country with the largest proven reserves of oil.
We will “rebel as they are doing at every protest point,” Guaidó said in reference to the numerous claims and shreds among the citizens and the military that have checked into gas stations. “What Maduro wants, the dictator wants, is that we’re not mobilized, is that we’re afraid (but) we’re going to keep mobilizing,” he warned.
Guaidó reappeared after Venezuela’s chancellor Jorge Arreaza claimed he was sheltered at the French embassy in Caracas, which was denied by Paris. “The ones that are hidden are them (…). 15 million dollars reward for them. I’m giving the face,” Guaidó says in one of the videos, referring to the accusation of U.S. justice for “narcoterrorism” against the Socialist ruler.
Maduro also hinted on June 1 that Guaidó, whom the Justice is investigating for his alleged involvement in two failed maritime raids in early May, “is hidden in an embassy” in Caracas, something the opponent denied almost immediately through his Twitter account.
“We are facing a real crisis caused by the U.S. government’s criminal sanctions,” Maduro said, offering the balance of a gasoline supply plan. “With complicity of the fugitive from justice – alluding to Guaidó -, hidden in an embassy,” he added.
Although Maduro called Guaidó a “fugitive from justice,” the prosecutor’s office has not reported that he issued a warrant against the opponent, although he has opened several investigations against him, the latter for his alleged involvement in the two failed raids last May, which resulted in at least 8 deaths.
