Guaidó spokesman assures that "Maduro is supported by a Cuban military guard"

May 2, 2019

The main communication officer of the president of the National Assembly badured that Nicolás Maduro is hosted by a Cuban military group and not by the national army.

The political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela continues to arouse the concern of the international community. After the incidents during the "Homeland March", during which it is estimated that there were at least two deaths, the National Assembly denounced the fact that Nicolás Maduro was detained in a guarded base by the Cuban army.

In conversation with Radio Miter Mendoza, Official journalist Alberto Ravell, spokesman for President Juan Guaidó, said that after the incidents, "today, we woke up surprised because Maduro was in a barracks surrounded by soldiers asking for solidarity. ". To this is added the particularity that his cohort does not consist of the Venezuelan armed forces, but soldiers sent from Cuba. "He no longer trusts his environment or the generals because they are supposed to be in touch with the United States negotiating his departure," he said.

"We are talking about a foreign invasion, but we have already been invaded by the Cuban army." Maduro's custody council is Cuban and his dependents are also Cuban, "he said. he reiterated. However, in the case of the other countries involved, "the Chinese are doing business and in the case of Russia, they sold us old weapons and even tried to set up a military base".