General Chavez Hugo Carvajal has recognized Juan Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela

"The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó Márquez: here is one more soldier for the causes of freedom and democracy, useful for restoring the goal of restoring the constitutional order allowing us to call free elections"said Hugo Carvajal in a video posted on his Twitter account.

SEgun declares that his statements are a message addressed to the Venezuelan people but "in particular" to the National Armed Forces. "Generals, How is it that having the power to leave international humanitarian aid in our country to save lives, they decide not to do it? Will they be so inhuman? Or does courage not give them the face to face, as they should, who orders them today to oppress our people? ", Did he declare.

In his speech, Carvajal remembers that he accomplished his military career of more than 30 yearsin which he was to "direct military intelligence and counterintelligence for more than ten years".

The general was elected deputy to the National Assembly by the State of Monagas for the period 2016-2021. and retired from intelligence services in 2012, after a decade in the service of Hugo Chávez, whom he calls "friend" in the video released today.

"Today, I give you a dual responsibility: I am, as a member of the National Assembly, the last vestige of the democracy that remains alive in this country, but also, with which I have a soldier from this country, a member of the Venezuelan army "he says.

The general breaks with the regime at a key date, Saturday, February 23, when Guaidó will lead a major peaceful mobilization on the border with Colombia to bring humanitarian aid across borders.

The former head of Venezuelan military counterespionage appears in US drug trafficking investigations. According to The New York Times, he would have avoided being extradited from Aruba for these charges in 2014, and would have been further sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for helping Colombian guerrilla groups to smuggle traffic. cocaine.