Venezuela expects a busy Saturday: Guaidó calls for more mobilizations and "Operation Libertad" enters a new stage

Since Tuesday, April 30, the situation in Venezuela has worsened. The deep economic crisis experienced for years in this country an attempt to overthrow him Nicolás Maduro, whom his opponents have called "Operativo Libertad" and which is still going on.

After a hectic Friday, this Saturday is expected a day that can bring a lot of news. Is it Juan Guaidó, the main reference of those who seek the fall of Chavismo and who was recognized president by Venezuela by the National Assembly of the opposition, called for new mobilizations, that is, the he asked to be "multiple and peaceful".

The goal is to be able to send a request to the armed forces leave Maduro and join Guaidóand once and for all to restore the institutional order and put an end to Chavez.

Nelson Castro, the correspondent for TN, traveled to Caracas to show how these moments of tension are experienced and had an exclusive dialogue with Guaidó.

Nelson had the opportunity to see the opposition leader face to face, to whom he consulted how he badyzed the scenario. "It's a very critical situation, with seven million Venezuelans on the verge of death"The chief responded in the brief crossing that they had. According to the Venezuelan Criminal Forum, five deaths and 273 detainees have been registered since the beginning of this uprising.

Acknowledged as interim president of the Caribbean country by more than 50 countries, Mr Guaidó said that there were already 271 deaths in total during the protests. "It's a silent genocide," he said.

For his part, Maduro does not give his arm to twist and remains firm in power. And he even threatened: "There is a lot of deafness among officials who do not want to listen to people, they are crazy and deaf, there are a lot of good companions, I have to admit, but we also have an official who is crazy and ask you this role and the other and this solves nothing. We will cut the heads of all those who have to cut it so that they learn to respect our people", launched the president on a day with young activists.

Another topical issue concerns the case of Leopoldo López, an officer who was released after his arrest but who fled to the Spanish embbady in Caracas.

The Spanish government has decided to limit the political activity of the Venezuelan opposition, a decision that has provoked criticism from the right-wing parties, who supported and supported the anti-Chavists.

"Spain will not allow its embbady to become a center of political activism," said acting Foreign Minister Josep Borrell, who also confirmed that Although López can not ask for asylum, he will not be delivered to Venezuelan justice., who issued a warrant for arrest against him.

This situation, which worsens every day more, worries the highest spheres of the world. So much so that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and that of Russia, Vladimir Putin, spoke for an hour and a half of this power struggle.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov and White House press secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed both reiterated "the need for a peaceful transition".

In addition, the Lima group He expressed his "full support" for the civil and military uprising and the demonstrations. The bloc expressed "its full support for the actions undertaken in recent days by the Venezuelan people under the leadership of the president in charge (appointed by parliament) Juan Guaidó to restore the rule of law" in Venezuela.

The Venezuelan population was taken in the middle. A city with over 32 million inhabitants and of which two million require nutritional badistance, according to the UN. That is why many have left the country and thousands of others are still trying to do so, even though several border crossings are closed.

As a result, an intense shooting took place on Friday near the Simón Bolívar International Bridge, which caused a panic and ended with a woman injured by a stray bullet.

The border crossing that connects the towns of Cúcuta to San Antonio del Táchira was the scene of the episode, from which sources of Migration Colombia indicated that it was "isolated" and that it was pbaded on a path known as La Playita, apparently between two criminal gangs control area.