Maduro warned that if Guaidó returned to Venezuela, he could be jailed and the opposition would redouble the bet

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro suggested on Tuesday that Juan Guaidó will be arrested if he keeps his promise and returns to Venezuelan territory. President Chavez said that the opposition leader had against him legal measures preventing him from traveling abroad. "Despite the risk, I will return to my country," said Guaidó.

The holder of the National Assembly He crossed the border into Colombia on foot on the weekend and attended the meeting of the Lima group on Monday, in which he was proclaimed "president in charge" of Venezuela and in which Maduro was clbadified as "usurper".

Guaidó, president of the National Assembly, announced his desire to return to Venezuela, although, in statements to reporters in Bogota, have declared themselves aware of the "risks" incurred. Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo has even mentioned the possibility of "acting collectively" in the event of a threat to the integrity of the leader or his family.

Maduro mentioned the problem in an interview with the chain ABC News in which stressed that Guaidó has no freedom of movement, justice prevented him from leaving Venezuela in January, following his self-proclamation to the presidency of the South American country.

Guaidó's answer

The leader of the opposition, Juan Guaidó, recognized by about fifty countries as interim president of Venezuela, badured of Bogota that he will return to his countrydespite the risk of being arrested for flouting a court order preventing him from leaving.

"An inmate does not serve anyone, a president in exile either, we are in an unprecedented area (…) And my role and my duty is to be in Caracas despite the risks, despite what this implies"Guaidó said in an interview broadcast Tuesday by the channel NTN24.