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Venezuela's Guaido returns home in affront to Maduro
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS MARCH 3, 2019 / 11:20 PM / UPDATED 3 MINUTES AGO
Venezuela's Guaido returns home in affront to Maduro
Efrain Otero, Carlos Jasso
5 MIN READ
MAIQUETIA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido arrived at Caracas’ airport on Monday after flouting a court-imposed travel ban by touring Latin American countries to boost support for his campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
A crowd of cheering supporters swarmed Guaido and his wife as they stepped into Maiquetia international airport’s arrivals hall. He then climbed onto a car roof and gave a thumbs up to people clustered in the road outside before leaving for Caracas where several thousand supporters had gathered to welcome him.
Guaido had vowed to return to lead protests on Monday and Tuesday during the Carnival holiday period. He kept details of his trip under wraps and he arrived without prior notice, meeting ambassadors for European countries at the airport, according to witnesses.
“Back in our beloved country! Venezuela, we just passed through immigration and we will now head to where our people are,” he said on Twitter just after arriving.
His return could become the next flashpoint in his duel with Maduro as he seeks to keep up momentum and spur his international backers to further isolate the socialist government. Most Western countries recognize Guaido as Venezuela’s legitimate head of state.
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Venezuela's Guaido returns home in affront to Maduro
Efrain Otero, Carlos Jasso
5 MIN READ
MAIQUETIA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido arrived at Caracas’ airport on Monday after flouting a court-imposed travel ban by touring Latin American countries to boost support for his campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
A crowd of cheering supporters swarmed Guaido and his wife as they stepped into Maiquetia international airport’s arrivals hall. He then climbed onto a car roof and gave a thumbs up to people clustered in the road outside before leaving for Caracas where several thousand supporters had gathered to welcome him.
Guaido had vowed to return to lead protests on Monday and Tuesday during the Carnival holiday period. He kept details of his trip under wraps and he arrived without prior notice, meeting ambassadors for European countries at the airport, according to witnesses.
“Back in our beloved country! Venezuela, we just passed through immigration and we will now head to where our people are,” he said on Twitter just after arriving.
His return could become the next flashpoint in his duel with Maduro as he seeks to keep up momentum and spur his international backers to further isolate the socialist government. Most Western countries recognize Guaido as Venezuela’s legitimate head of state.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezuelas-guaido-returns-home-in-affront-to-maduro-idUSKCN1QL0A6
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Juan Guaidó in Las Mercedes: Here I am ... now the game is another # 4Mar
March 04 2019, 1:12 pm By Lisbeth Piñeros / lapatilla.com
https://www.lapatilla.com/2019/03/04/juan-guaido-ya-se-encuentra-en-la-plaza-alfredo-sadel-de-las-mercedes-4mar/
The sycophants want Guaido jailed (and given a proper Chavista welcome at the Helicoide!) and made an example of. But Maduro knows that if so much as a hand is laid on him, there will be a shit-storm of epic proportions. But if he lets him wander about and keeps drawing bigger and bigger crowds, it makes him look weak. The betting money is that Guaido gets assassinated in public, and the Chavistas find the "CIA" operative who admits to doing so at the behest of Duque or Bolso. (complete with written instructions and their signatures) They have already showed their hand. Which is why Guaido is surrounded by foreign diplomats.
The only thing the Chavists cannot understand is what life would be like without them in power. Perhaps they think like the spouse of abusive alcoholics... ignore the problem and it goes away?
March 04 2019, 1:12 pm By Lisbeth Piñeros / lapatilla.com
The president in charge of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, is already in the Plaza Alfredo Sadel de Las Mercedes, with his wife Fabiana Rosales, diplomatic corps and the deputies of the National Assembly (AN), and from the platform he spoke to the country.
"We are much more united and strong than ever. I'm here. The game changed ... the game is different, "said Guaidó.
In addressing his first words to those attending the rally, he sent a condolences "to the relatives of the indigenous people and young people killed, and despite this, is there an iota of fear?" Guaidó asked.
"Whoever usurps functions and disguises himself in carnivals with the presidential band is not the president. Here is the president in charge of Venezuela. We said it on January 5, the military band is broken and here is the president in charge of Venezuela, here they have me. Yesterday they did not want to receive them in Russia, they did the 'fo', but they could see the great reception they gave us in the countries we visited. The world is supporting this fight, "he added.
"Union and mobilization are the two elements we need to end this usurpation," he reiterated.
He insisted that "there will be normality until we recover the family hug, until all those who left (...) We will watch over his return home, we will watch over everyone."
He called unions and public employees to a meeting. "We can not allow those who force marching and wearing a flannel to continue abusing them. It is time to leave this regime without functioning, "he said.
He also took the opportunity to announce that for Saturday, March 9, he is calling for a new demonstration. "All of Venezuela goes out in search of freedom and we will not stay calm until we achieve the liberation of our country," he added.
"We are going well, we are doing very well, we are going with everything until we achieve the freedom of our country," he concluded.
"We are much more united and strong than ever. I'm here. The game changed ... the game is different, "said Guaidó.
In addressing his first words to those attending the rally, he sent a condolences "to the relatives of the indigenous people and young people killed, and despite this, is there an iota of fear?" Guaidó asked.
"Whoever usurps functions and disguises himself in carnivals with the presidential band is not the president. Here is the president in charge of Venezuela. We said it on January 5, the military band is broken and here is the president in charge of Venezuela, here they have me. Yesterday they did not want to receive them in Russia, they did the 'fo', but they could see the great reception they gave us in the countries we visited. The world is supporting this fight, "he added.
"Union and mobilization are the two elements we need to end this usurpation," he reiterated.
He insisted that "there will be normality until we recover the family hug, until all those who left (...) We will watch over his return home, we will watch over everyone."
He called unions and public employees to a meeting. "We can not allow those who force marching and wearing a flannel to continue abusing them. It is time to leave this regime without functioning, "he said.
He also took the opportunity to announce that for Saturday, March 9, he is calling for a new demonstration. "All of Venezuela goes out in search of freedom and we will not stay calm until we achieve the liberation of our country," he added.
"We are going well, we are doing very well, we are going with everything until we achieve the freedom of our country," he concluded.
https://www.lapatilla.com/2019/03/04/juan-guaido-ya-se-encuentra-en-la-plaza-alfredo-sadel-de-las-mercedes-4mar/
The sycophants want Guaido jailed (and given a proper Chavista welcome at the Helicoide!) and made an example of. But Maduro knows that if so much as a hand is laid on him, there will be a shit-storm of epic proportions. But if he lets him wander about and keeps drawing bigger and bigger crowds, it makes him look weak. The betting money is that Guaido gets assassinated in public, and the Chavistas find the "CIA" operative who admits to doing so at the behest of Duque or Bolso. (complete with written instructions and their signatures) They have already showed their hand. Which is why Guaido is surrounded by foreign diplomats.
The only thing the Chavists cannot understand is what life would be like without them in power. Perhaps they think like the spouse of abusive alcoholics... ignore the problem and it goes away?
........coño Diosdado, estoy disfrutando carnival, usted puede manejar eso.
Seriously, social media had a field day today laughing at the regime, something I know bothers the piss out of 'em.
As some leftist once said, "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." 
