Venezuela: Guaidó raises bet and says "very soon" will demand his office at the government palace

The opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, warned on Tuesday that "very soon", he would run for office at the Miraflores presidential palace office. "We will prepare ourselves all over the country go get it", badured the head of the National Assembly in front of a crowd in Caracas, as part of another day of demonstrations against Nicolás Maduro.

"We need a workplace, so very soon and when we have the armed forces completely alignedLet's pick up my office, which is located in Miraflores, "said Guaidó, acting president of more than 50 countries.His announcement caused an ovation in the Altamira region, east of Caracas, where He has chaired one of several marches called in the past few hours to claim the blackout that has affected Venezuela since last Thursday.

"With courage and strength, I ask you to trust: Venezuela will emerge from the shadows. The cessation of the usurpation is very close"Guaidó, who also said that he would convene a national mobilization soon to urge Maduro to leave power, which the legislator declared" usurper "for having started a second term in January as a result of" d & # " Fraudulent elections ".

In addition, the leader reiterated that he would not "tremble" to activate a constitutional article that authorizes foreign intervention get Maduro out of power. "There is no doubt that difficult days will come, but they will be decisive," he said. He added: "The darkness which propagated this regime, these murderers, will not dissipate the pressure exerted against the dictatorship".

To all this, thousands of Venezuelans are accusing the Maduro government of collapsing the electricity system due to corruption and lack of investment in infrastructure. Maduro and his government, on the contrary, denounced the fact that this failure is due to "a big attack"Technical and cybernetic against the production area of ​​the Guri dam, in the state of Bolívar, the main hydropower plant of Venezuela.