Chavez activists who took the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington ended the US-ordered deportation.

Activists for the dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, to whom the United States ordered to leave the embbady of that country in Washington managed to stop his expulsion from the diplomatic building on Monday after the US security forces opened the door by force.

The government of Donald Trump ordered the Monday afternoon activists who had been staying for several weeks at the Venezuelan Embbady to evacuate immediately from the building. at the request of the emissaries in Washington of the leader of the opposition Juan Guaidó

"Anyone who refuses to comply with these requests and orders to leave the property will be guilty of trespbading in violation of federal laws and the Federal District of Columbia, and will be arrested and charged.", was warned in the order given by federal agents to activists.

"The United States does not recognize the authority of the former Maduro regime, nor any of its former representatives, to allow people to legally enter, stay in a property or take any other action on this. ", he added.

Some chose to leave the diplomatic hallbut four of them decided to follow inside ready to "resist" and therefore to be "detained" by the authorities before an evacuation order which they qualify as "illegal".

Entry and night, the authorities forced the entrance of the embbady and several policemen crowded at the door, in what appeared to be the beginning of the announced expulsion of the legation.

However, The mediation of the activists' lawyers allowed the police to close the door a few minutes later and allow the four people to stay in the diplomatic building.

although IThe authorities have not explained their decision not to evacuate the embbady for the time being.Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, one of the lawyers, told reporters that the police had backed down by reiterating that the deportation was a violation of international law.

For its part, the "number two" of Guaidó in Washington and sent to the Organization of American States (OAS), Gustavo TarreHe told Efe that expulsion was a "time" issue and that the United States was following "due process".

They were precisely Tarre and the Guaidó envoy to Washington, Carlos Vecchio, which the Trump government recognizes as legitimate representatives of Venezuela in the United States, those who asked for the expulsion of activists.

These militants entered the Venezuelan Embbady in Washington a few weeks after the departure of the last Maduro diplomats. to prevent Vecchio and Tarre from taking the fence as they had already done with other diplomatic buildings in the United States.

The control of the embbady in Washington faces for several days these activists who occupy with the Venezuelan supporters of Guaidó, who remained outside the building, blocking the entrance of food and other supplies.

In recent days, moreover, US authorities They had cut off electricity and water in the enclosure.

These clashes repeated on Monday, when Dozens of Guaidó supporters went to the embbady before the eventuality of an impending deportation and they insulted the activists and bothered them with lights and sirens.

Carmen RuzzaA 46-year-old Venezuelan academic went to the embbady daily with coffee and donuts, while the community surrounded the diplomatic siege to prevent activists from entering the premises to urge them to leave.

"This is a microcosm of the struggle we have in Venezuela"said to this AFP expert from the American University.

For Ruzza the Maduro Government "It's a criminal regime, it's a drug-trafficking regime that kills, suppresses."

During weeks the struggle that Venezuela faces between Nicolás Maduro's regime, recognized by the UN and supported by Russia and China, and Guaidó, supported by the United States and more than 50 countries, was also transferred to Washington's diplomatic headquarters.

Venezuela faces a political and social crisis that intensified after January 23Guaidó, head of Parliament, He declared himself acting president by invoking articles of the Venezuelan Constitution.

The Venezuelan opposition, which does not recognize the new six-year term that Nicolás Maduro swore on January 10, considering the illegal elections last May, says that the country is going through a "complex humanitarian emergency" and asked the international community to help it.

With information from AFP and EFE