Venezuela: Chabad general recognizes Guaidó as president and calls to rebel against Maduro

The army, former officer of the intelligence and counterintelligence services of Venezuela for more than a decade, broke with the regime through a public video and called on soldiers to allow the entrance of immune help.

"President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó Márquez: here is one more soldier for the causes of freedom and democracy, useful to achieve the goal of recovery of the constitutional order we allowing to call free elections "said Hugo Carvajal in a video posted on his Twitter account.

According to his statements, his statements are a message to the Venezuelan people but "in particular" to the National Armed Forces. "General, how is it that having the power to let international humanitarian aid enter our country to save lives, they decide not to do it? Will they be so inhumane? Or is it what courage does not give them to face, as they should, who orders them today to oppress our people? ", he declared.

In his speech, Carvajal recalled that he had completed his more than 30-year military career in which he had "directed military intelligence and counterintelligence for more than a decade."

The general was elected deputy to the National Assembly by the State of Monagas for the period 2016-2021 and retired from the intelligence service in 2012, after a decade in the service of Hugo Chávez, who 39, he calls "friend" in the broadcast video. aujourd & # 39; hui.

"Today, I give you a dual responsibility, that of deputy in the National Assembly, the last vestige of the democracy that remains alive in this country, but also, with what I have as a that soldier of this country, member of the Venezuelan army, "he says.

The general breaks with the regime at a key date, Saturday, February 23, when Guaidó will lead a major peaceful mobilization on the border with Colombia to bring humanitarian aid across borders.

The former head of Venezuelan military counterespionage appears in US drug trafficking investigations. According to The New York Times, he would have avoided being extradited from Aruba for these charges in 2014, and would have been further sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for helping Colombian guerrilla groups to smuggle traffic. cocaine.

The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó Márquez. Here again is a soldier for the causes of freedom and democracy, useful for achieving the goal of restoring the constitutional order that allows us to call for free elections … pic.twitter.com/bMGEcVm2Vp

– Hugo Carvajal (@ hugocarvajal4f) February 21, 2019

Carvajal, who had criticized the installation of the ruling National Constituent Assembly (NCA) and what he now calls "illegitimate", asked Maduro to stop and talk to him. badume his responsibilities as he said, Chávez made the April 11, 2002 the coup d'etat against him and there were about 20 dead. "On the other hand, you (Maduro) have murdered hundreds of people on the streets, not counting the dead, for lack of medicines, take the misery you brought to our lands, badume the humanitarian, social, economic and political crisis," he said. he declared.