Juan Guaidó redoubled pressure on Chavez with another march and an amnesty for the military – 27/01/2019

The guard soldier makes a poker head. Then, with contempt, he ends up breaking the leaflets of the National Assembly (Parliament) where the opposition proposes a general amnesty and calls them to support the transitional government. The scene, under the watchful eye of senior officers, was experienced this Sunday in the barracks of the presidential guard of honor, but it has been repeated in all the great garrisons of the country. With this action, added to the new national march scheduled for this week, self-proclaimed "acting president" Juan Guaidó has stepped up the pressure on Nicolás Maduro to agree on a negotiated withdrawal.

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Organized in groups of activists, supporters of Guaidó stuck to the barracks gates to ask the army to stop supporting Maduro, knowing that he was the only support he had at the moment. "Hey, you have to support people, you spend the same thing as us. You do not care about this country? "Asked them a dark-skinned, dark-skinned woman from the sidewalk." We're brothers, you know what we're going through, "tried to convince them with another at his side, in a scene in front of him. the chronicler of Clarin.

No door open The guards turned away, trying to avoid contact. In some places, they broke the wheels and threw them under the door; in others, they were burned to show their allegiance to the regime. The opposition took for granted that this was going to happen, not least because of the pressure exerted by the soldiers on the military leaders.

In any case, and although they do not express it openly, we know that there is a strong internal malaise in the different forces. According to data processed by human rights organizations, there were 163 military prisoners by the end of 2018. Of these, 116 were jailed this year.

"We know that they receive orders but we are waiting for you. You have a commitment to the Constitution "Guaidó told them, trying to bend them to rebellion. The leader refers to the middle and lower ranks of the security forces, who do not like the crackdown by the Special Action Forces (FAES), the "new executioners" of the regime, as they are called here. .

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These are well-prepared squadrons that belong to the Bolivarian National Police and which, little by little, move the intelligence services (SEBIN). They are engaged in selective operations, arbitrary arrests and torture. These are largely the perpetrators of 29 killings of demonstrators from Monday to Friday.

These deaths have been a very hard blow for the population, which seems outraged by what is happening. There were also a little over 100 arrests. That is why yesterday Guaidó was asked to clarify that "the amnesty aims at generating governance and moving forward", but that it will not be used to cover the crimes of FAES, which are "the murder young people ".

In act of this Sunday, baduming his "acting presidency", the head of Parliament addressed the military with a tone of command. "Today, I give you an order: do not shoot the people of Venezuela, against those who, in a clear and constitutional way, have come forward to defend your family, your people, your work, your livelihood "Today, Venezuelan soldier, I give you an order: do not repress peaceful demonstrations," he said.

He therefore anticipated what could happen in the walk planned this week, a day that will be announced in the coming hours. The opposition expects that a mbadive new convocation, as was the case last Wednesday, demonstrates the strength of the complaint against Maduro. But at the same time, he fears the violent actions of Chavez shock groups.

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The United States also suspects a fanatical sector of Chavez to be tempted to act against Guaidó. On Sunday, US National Security Adviser John Bolton warned that "any act of violence and intimidation against American diplomatic personnel, Venezuela's democratic leader, Juan Guaidó, or the National Assembly, would constitute a serious infringement of the legality and would be followed by a significant response ".

Guaidó is confident. It moves little, without warning and very protected. Nobody knows where he sleeps. All are security measures against the possibility that they are trying to stop. This Sunday, during Mbad at the Church of San José de Chacao, the popularity gained this month and a half was seen. As verified by this sent from Clarinpeople were desperate to greet and congratulate him. Even those who took the host once received the sacrament, turned around and made gestures of support.

As Guaidó becomes popular and the opposition gets stronger, the tension in the diet increases. His great fear is that acts of rebellion multiply, like the one that took place with the military attache of the Venezuelan Embbady in Washington, Colonel José Luis Silva, who left his post and announced in a video his support for Guaidó. Everything indicates that the next demonstration will be as mbadive as the previous one. In fact, in recent days, demonstrations have taken place in neighborhoods that until recently were the absolute domain of Chavismo.