Juan Guaidó calls for "stopovers" for the next days

CARACAS.- After the

violent day yesterday

in
Venezuela,

Juan Guaidó,

boss of
Parliament and recognized by more than 50 countries as
The President-in-Office announced today that the public administration would begin tomorrow with progressive stops until all sectors join the general strike in the country.

"Tomorrow, we will accompany the proposal made by the workers to make staggered work stoppages until the completion of the general strike," he warned in an act of the opposition commemorating the labor Day. "Venezuela will change," he said while the crowd shouted "Yes, you can."

The announcement made by Guaidó from an improvised platform, with a microphone so that many can listen to it, with a white shirt and black pants, with energy, before the thousands of
protesters with Venezuelan flags that were concentrated in Caracas and in response to their call.

He also admitted: "It is clear that the armed forces have listened to us, but yesterday they were not sufficient," Guaidó said in the context of the opposition protests convened for May 1 at El Marqués, in the municipality of Sucre. metropolitan area of ​​Caracas.

The interim leader called on the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) to "come forward jointly," insisting "that here is not asking for a clash between brothers, but putting oneself on the side of the Venezuelan people ".

In the Plaza Francia of the district of Altamira, shouting "Who are we?

Venezuela

! What we want? Freedom! The protesters also expressed their support for the opposition leader, who announced yesterday the beginning of the end of the Libertad operation, to overthrow the Bolivarian president

Nicolás Maduro

government, in the midst of a political but also social and economic crisis in Venezuela, with record high inflation, food shortages and remedies. Also in Sucre, Yaracuy, Carabobo, Valera, Trujillo, Nueva Esparta and others rallied in favor of the opposition.

Meanwhile, at another meeting point, agents of the National Motorized Police and the National Guard clashed with protesters who were traveling on the highway linking the east and the west. west of the capital with tear gas and pellets. Before the reaction of forces, many citizens fled in search of refuge.

Voices in the street

Ana Camarillo, a 46-year-old housewife, said she had decided to leave because the city had to wake up. "We are missing all the principles, all the values ​​and we are overwhelmed by a lack of progress, and it is time to fight for it," said Camarillo.

The woman also said that yesterday she had also taken to the streets and said that she was willing to participate in any necessary demonstrations: "We must come out of this tragedy".

Near him was Iria Agreda, a 27-year-old nun who decided to march to "fight for freedom and accompany people tired of so much oppression, pain and death".

Likewise, Maduro's supporters were in the vicinity of the Miraflores Palace, the government house, to show their support for the Socialist leader.

AP, Reuters and DPA agencies