Juan Guaidó's representative to the United States will attend Donald Trump's speech to Congress

The diplomatic representative to the United States of the proclaimed interim President of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, will be the official guest of Senator Marco Rubio for the State of the Union address delivered by President Donald on Tuesday. Trump, informed lawmaker Monday.

Republican Senator Rubio, fierce opponent of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, announced that Carlos Vecchio, recently appointed head of business by Guaidó and recognized by Washington, will accompany him to Trump's annual speech to Congress, where the president sets out his program and his vision of the future.

"I predict that President Trump will once again insist on the position of his government against tyrannical leaders in Latin America and on behalf of the people of Venezuela"Rubio said in a statement.

The senator said that Vecchio, exiled to the United States since 2014, while he had fled Venezuela for political reasons, "witnessed the Maduro regime's repression and atrocious violations of human rights," he said. as well as "an indefatigable defender of the restoration of democracy and freedom in his beloved homeland".

The tradition allows the 535 members of Congress to choose guests to accompany them in the president's annual speech. Members of the Senate (100) and the House of Representatives (435) take advantage of this opportunity to draw attention to causes that they consider important.

Besides Rubio, Trump and his vice president, Mike Pence, his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and his national security advisor, John Bolton, have encouraged opposition protests in Venezuela and urged Maduro to give up power and open the doors. from the White House to opponents like Vecchio.

Exceptional opposition leader, Vecchio joins the party of the popular will led by Leopoldo López, under house arrest in Venezuela and whose wife, Lilián Tintori, met Trump at the White House in February 2017.

Rubio, who lost Trump in the run for Republican presidential candidate, is the one who put the issue of Venezuela on the radar of the current president from the beginning of his term, presenting it to Tintori and deploying all his weapons to support the opponents of the president. Mature

(With information from AFP and EFE)