DAVOS / ASUNCIÓN 01/23/2019 20:26 Updated: 01/23/2019 9:50 PM

EFE
Almost all of Latin America has recognized this Wednesday Juan Guaidó , current president of the Parliament of Venezuela , as the new president of the country after his self-proclamation . The governments of Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Peru, Ecuador and Guatemala have announced their support.

Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Canada have made official their position in Davos (Switzerland) after a meeting in which the presidents of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro; Colombia, Iván Duque; Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado; Ecuador, Lenín Moreno, and the vice president of Peru, Mercedes Aráoz.

Previously, it was the US president, Donald Trump , who recognized him as legitimate president, while minutes later Canada joined.

Duque, who was the first to speak in Davos before a small group of journalists, said that his country "recognizes Juan Guaidó as president of Venezuela and accompanies this process of transition towards democracy so that the Venezuelan people will be freed from the dictatorship".

In turn, Bolsonaro also said that Brazil recognizes Guaidó "as president and Brazil jointly with the other countries of the Lima Group." "We will give all the political support necessary for the process to take its course," he said. The Peruvian vice-president pronounced herself in the same sense.