Supported by the supporters and protected by a parliamentary delegation arrived at the airport of Maiquetía, Juan Guaidó is back in Venezuela after his international tour that lasted a month. But it was a landing painless. The regime of Maduro had decided to welcome the leader of the opposition in his way, mobilizing dozens of officers and soldiers of the national Guard six years, and that they had surrounded the airport. So, when it appeared a Guaidó tired, determined to resume the battle by calling a general mobilization, you are flared the chavisti and started a real fight. There were shoves, then punches, with the groups that confronted each other at a distance and then close, and the president’s self-styled that it was off to the hard work while all around many shouted “fascist”, “murderer”, “shame” and other insults and managed to strattonarlo.
Guaidó remained tense and silent, part of his shirt unbuttoned, looking straight ahead towards the exit which has reached almost running. He had already tweeted his message: “Venezuela: we are in Caracas. I bring with me the commitment of the free world willing to help us to recover democracy and freedom”. The president, Nicolás Maduro, in the same minutes, was yet closed in the Palace of Miraflores, lima. He was a veteran of the visit of Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, who had reiterated his support, and the intention of Moscow “to enlarge its influence in the region”.
Both Maduro is Guaidó have used these 31 days, to collect new solidarity and strengthen the ties with the powers that support them. The first followed the advice from russia and china, and opened its doors to the dollar, which has given breath to an economy that is in bankruptcy, by making finally a smile to the middle-class and high-depressed and without a future. But he left the margins of this shift from “capitalism to the chinese,” the poor and the very poor, his electoral base, which continues to starve and die for lack of medicines.
