One of Venezuela’s worst natural disasters occurred in the province of Vargas in december 1999, when Juan Guaidó was 16 years old. Intense and prolonged rainfall led to flooding and landslides that took out villages and people. Upwards of 30,000 people, approximately ten per cent of Vargas’s population, is assumed to have died in the disaster.
The experience, and the flimsy hjälparbetena under then-president Hugo Chávez, brought Juan Guaidós activism, according to the magazine Americas Quarterly.
in the home state and completed his degree at the George Washington University in the nation’s capital. Then returned to Venezuela to study at a private school of economics.
As a student, 12 years ago, he participated in his first demonstration against Hugo Chávez and protested against the regime off down one of the country’s most popular tv stations. Then, he formed, together with the then leader of the opposition, Leopoldo López, the party Voluntad Popular, who was behind the first large demonstrations five years ago.
as Guaidós mentor. the Lopez was sentenced in 2014 to 14 years in prison for having caused violent riots. He was released in 2017, but sitting since then in house arrest.
While Lopez is ten years older and belong to the elite with roots in the oil industry is considered to Juan Guaidó have a less stressful light, which can reduce the ability of the regime to defame him.
for the first time in 2010 and re-elected in 2015. He was still relatively unknown until he three weeks ago was elected the president of parliament.
the security services have in the past seized upon him, but had not dared to imprison him. Now he is recognized as Venezuela’s legitimate president of the united states and several neighbouring countries.
Sweden has, after the dramatic days in Venezeuela, endorsed a statement that will come from the EU’s utrikeschef Federica Mogherini.
”The civil rights, freedom and security to all members of the national assembly, including its president, Juan Guaidó must be followed and fully respected,” she writes in the statement, adding that the EU calls for the urgently set in motion a political process for election.
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