Crisis in Venezuela: Juan Guaidó arrived in Brazil and will be received by Bolsonaro

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, recognized by some 50 countries as acting agent from his country, seeking more support from Brazil, arrived early in the morning in Brasilia. He will be received in the afternoon by President Jair Bolsonaro, before his return announced in Caracas, where he could face justice.

Bolsonaro "will receive Guaidó during a personal visit" which will begin at 14 in the palace of Plbadto, said Wednesday the spokesman of the Brazilian presidency, Otavio Rego Barros.

Guaidó, arrived from Bogota at the international airport of Brasilia at 1:40 local time, in a Colombian air force aircraft, said the portal G1.

The ambbadador appointed by Guaidó in Brazil, María Teresa Belandria, said that the leader of the opposition would also be received "by many representatives of the diplomatic delegations present in Brasilia who recognized him as the president. interim agency of Venezuela ".

Guaido, who violated an order prohibiting him from leaving Venezuela, attended a meeting of the Lima group on Monday in Bogotá.

At this meeting, bloc members – a dozen countries in Latin America and Canada – pledged to reduce the economic and diplomatic seat to the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, but without resorting to force, possibility that the United States left open, invited to this deliberation.

"Brazil is one of the countries that, along with Peru, has been more categorical about its opposition to the militaristic logic that was to be imposed on Monday," said international badyst Ronald Rodríguez from the Observatory of the University of Venezuela to AFP. of the rosary.

Therefore, your trip to Brasilia is gaining more weight than it could "better coordinate with Brazil" facing his return to Venezuela.

Countries that do not know Maduro, including Brazil, claim that their election was fraudulent. Prior to this scenario, Guaidó, president of the National Assembly, declared himself sovereign on 23 January.

The United States will submit Thursday to the vote of the UN Security Council a draft resolution calling for presidential elections in Venezuela and the "unhindered" entry of aid in the form of food and medicine.

The United States rejected a meeting with Maduro

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Chavez Jorge Arreaza called for a meeting Wednesday between Maduro and Trump, but US Vice President Mike Pence, rejected from the plane this possibility.

"The only thing left to discuss with Maduro at this time is the time and date of his departure," tweeted Pence, next to the Spanish label #VenezuelaLibre.

During the week, Guaidó repeated that toppling Maduro on all options they should be on the table, position clearly expressed by Pence at the meeting of the Lima group.

"I think Guaidó was hoping that there would be a space in which Nicolás Maduro would be involved to say that the possibility was real," added Rodríguez.

Back to Caracas

In an interview with the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, Guaidó insisted that he return to Caracas this week to perform his "duties", even if they "decide to take the measure" of imprisoning him. . On Monday, Colombia denounced "serious and credible threats" against Guaidó and accused the "usurper" government of everything that could happen to him.

Maduro said that Guaidó must answer to justice for breaking the law. Although Guaidó's risk of arrest is high, the opposition leader is betting that Maduro will refrain from doing so and more when he has the eyes of the world on him.

His supporters announced that they would be mobilized to receive him Friday in the Venezuelan capital. The call is at the headquarters of the newspaper El Nacional. In the city, there are also demonstrations of loyalists of Chavismo.

However, Guaidó has not specified the date of his return nor will he do so directly from Brazil.

Maduro still has the support of the army, which controls much of the Venezuelan government.

According to the Colombian immigration authorities, some 326 members of the Venezuelan armed forces deserted and entered Colombia. But the thick, 365,000 troops, stay faithful to chavism. The 1.6 million civilian militiamen who make up the terrible collectives, which boasts the number two Chavismo, Diosdado Cabello, are also touted.