Guaidó: "It's time to take the step"

"Tomorrow is attentive to the information because it was time to take the plunge," said Guaidó this afternoon on his Twitter account.

"Our armed forces can not continue to be accomplices of the usurper of Miraflores (by President Nicolás Maduro), he can not continue to hide it, because a solution is not viable with him", he added.

Shortly before, Guaidó had announced at a press conference that tomorrow, at a special session of the National Assembly (NA, the unicameral parliament that he chairs), would ask the deputies to declare "the state of emergency" following the breakdown of Venezuela. He has been suffering for three days.

Since Thursday at 17 years, large areas of Caracas and 22 of the 23 federal states are without electricity.

Maduro attributed the breakdown to a cyber sabotage that did not give details, while anti-Chavez leaders and sources of the state's electricity company, Corpoelec, explained that this was due to the lack of information. infrastructure maintenance.

Guaidó was sworn in on Jan. 23 as president of the ANA-appointed Venezuela, an anti-Chavez majority, who does not recognize the tenure begun on Jan. 10 by Maduro, for having emerged from elections in which the Opposition did not participate because it did not exist. guarantees of impartiality.

Since then, he has appointed ministers and ambbadadors, and has led several street protests for Maduro's departure from the government, as well as an unsuccessful attempt at humanitarian aid in the country, involving hundreds thousands of Venezuelans.