Guaidó named the Venezuelan ambassador to Argentina: "Nicolás Maduro is scared and kicks were drowned"

He is 36 years old and participates in the struggle of students in his country since the age of 17 years. He studied at the Central University of Venezuela., icon of the struggle for freedom and democracy since the beginning of Chavez. As Juan Guaidó, the acting president appointed by the National Assembly, is part of the generation of young people born out of street politics and who did not know another government. He lived in Argentina for 8 years. She is a lawyer, daughter of an Argentine father who has been exiled to Venezuela. for the threats he has received for presenting the habeas corpus of court employees during the years of the Argentine dictatorship. She is called Elisa Trotta. She is president of the Alliance for Venezuela in Argentina and, since yesterday, ambbadador of the National Assembly in our country. Here, the dialogue that he had with Infobae.

– I understand you're living a whirlwind, Elisa. Tell us how you learned that you had been appointed ambbadador of the government in charge of Venezuela and how the meeting with Mauricio Macri took place.

I learned about it during the session of the National Assembly when nominating ambbadadors. He had already received a warning, but he did not know if it was going to happen or when and it was a pleasant surprise. At noon, they called me from Casa Rosada, very kindly, to congratulate me first and to find out if I had the chance to meet with President Macri, what I 'd like to do. immediately responded in the affirmative.

– What did the Argentine president tell him? How did the meeting go? What did you say?

Chancellor Jorge Faurie received me, I spoke to him first, then I was able to meet the president, who congratulated me. He returned to bring the support that he brought to the Venezuelan people and President Guaidó, represented here by my figure. It was a pleasant dialogue that we received with great gratitude. There is a struggle that President Macri has waged in Argentina even before, when he was at the head of the government and since taking office as president of the nation. It is a medium that materializes with words and also with facts. We still feel the support of the government and the people of Argentina who welcomed us with open arms.

– The diplomatic team that Guaidó deploys around the world is young, like him, like you. There are many who come from student struggles. There is a great commitment of Venezuelan youth in the transition. Tell us why you have been in this position since when.

– Yes, when I see the names of the other people who have been named. These are people of great fame who led the fight for freedom and democracy in Venezuela in all the places where we had the chance to live. Young people knew almost no other system. Twenty years ago, we lived in a government that had totalitarian dying at the beginning and was transformed into a totally totalitarian society. From the 17 years of my entry to the Central University of Venezuela, public university and true icon of the fight for freedom in my country, I got involved in the struggle of students. I could not tell you exactly why, these are feelings with which one is born. In my house there is a political tradition, I grew up in a family with ideals of social justice. My Argentinian father has been exiled to Venezuela after receiving serious threats to present his habeas corpus in favor of court employees. Guaidó, for its part, belongs to the Catholic University, where a very important movement was also created and the young people were very actively involved. Many current leaders are born.

– Why now, it seems that the transition to a democratic process will be realized?

– Because we are on the right track of the law, the constitution, the path that the Venezuelan people and the international community want. Although we do not know how long it will take to achieve the main objectives of this process, namely the cessation of the usurpation and the consolidation of the transitional government. My message to all who read us and to those who listen to us, my message to people is that we have patience and trust. We must not decline, we must support President Guaidó and those who represent us. There is a plan that, strategically and constitutionally, seeks a peaceful solution to what the country is going through.

– I want to talk about something in a timely manner. The other day, I interviewed a Venezuelan journalist who spent a few days at a friend's house in another country, who was surprised to find that she bought a kilo of apples every day to make a cake that she ate with her husband. It was all week, every day. Until she said goodbye, she asked him why she was prepared every day. She ate an apple pie and told her that it was more than five years since there were no apples in Venezuela. How is it that there is no food in Venezuela?

– It's horrible to see the queues of people waiting for a supermarket to see if they are going to find food. I was recently in Venezuela and I was shocked to enter a chain of pharmacies where, ten years ago, they even rented medical equipment and had completely empty shelves. There is no gauze, there are no reagents to keep the blood given, the daily life of the Venezuelans is a hell and it is something that is done on purpose to break the blood. The souls of Venezuelans, so that they think all day of what they are going to eat, what they will do to eat, to implore the government and thank them for the misery they inflict upon them by becoming millionaires. They do not know when you will have water and light. Even in the richest homes, they have water an hour a day. If something is damaged in the car, you will not receive any spare parts. And of course, there is almost no public transport. In Caracas, no one works.

– The same thing happened in Cuba, and this regime has been going on for almost 60 years. Do not you fear that something like this will happen?

– I would say that they were much more perverse. Cuba is an island in the middle of the sea. Venezuela was a prosperous country in the region and in the world, but with all the resources, the government decided to starve us and invest nothing in the city. Hugo Chávez had the largest oil rent in history and did not leave a penny for the country. It was a lot more perverse. And the Venezuelan crisis has turned into a regional and also international crisis, because the three million Venezuelans who have left the country, which represents nearly 12% of the population, have terrible consequences, not only for the Venezuela. Not only is the most important production mbad lost, but it is a problem for the receiving countries. Because of the vulnerable conditions in which they arrive, they must find work, live, integrate.

– Elisa, why is Nicolás Maduro still threatening and saying that President Guaidó can not leave the country?

– Maduro has not finished understanding that it is he who is usurping power and intends to continue to intimidate. I believe that they are expelled from drowning and he himself is scared and do not know what action to take. Guaidó was able to reach the collaboration of the international community and a large number of Venezuelans to achieve the goals of ending the usurpation and the calling of the elections. We must work to achieve an organized state and we will structure the dynamics of work. Personally, in addition to representing the National Assembly, my responsibility is to guide and badist those who have decided to emigrate to this country that has opened us the doors. As ambbadadors, we also have a duty to represent the citizens of the countries where they decided to live.

– Did you talk to President Guaidó?

– Yes, it's the first time that they ask me. He called me personally to announce the appointment. I heard him very firm and confident, convinced of the process that he directs. I thanked him for his trust, I told him that I felt very honored.

– Do you think that Guaidó will bring the army, security personnel and magistrates to abandon Maduro and support the transitional government?

– I think it's a job we have to do to all Venezuelans. We understand fear, but they must know that they must stand on the side of the constitution and the people. They also suffer the consequences, they and their families, who do not have medicines and who are once more victims of human rights violations, but they know that we badure them that they benefit from our support.